A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE family it stretches from the north of india all the way to western europe almost half of the global population speaks an indo-european language and that includes you and me english is a indo-european language specifically part of the germanic branch of the family along with languages like german dutch and swedish in the early 5th century the romans who had ruled over england for over 400 years withdrew their hold over the island filling this vacuum a number of germanic tribes from denmark in the north of germany ventured onto the island and slowly replaced the celtic and romano british cultures that had been dominant in the area celtic speakers became concentrated in wales scotland and cornwall while the area we now know as england became culturally germanic the germanic peoples in britain well from a number of separate tribes eventually developed a common cultural identity as anglo-saxons and with these anglo-saxons
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