What percentage of the English language is Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, and French?
It’s difficult to say what the percentage is, as there are many words in English that have there counterpart in other languages, e.g beef is French, and oxen is German.English has it’s base from Anglo Saxon. Anglo Saxons were a tribe living on the boarder between, what we today call Denmark (Danevang) and Germany (Schleswig). Had it not been for the French language influence, English today would be very much like Danish, and in fact there are many Norse words tobe found e.g manger=many flu=fly end=end hang=hang tid=time olde=old hold=hold. And this is only naming a few. English is constructed very much like Danish and English students of germanic languages have very little difficulty in speaking and translating Danish fluently. To find a percentage, one would have to investigate the origin of each word, but it can de safely said that old English and Norse are well represented. I hope this can help.That translates to. Jeg håbe at ind-læg kan hjælpe. (håbe=hope,at=th-at,kan=can,hjælp=hel
