What Romance Language is most similar to English?
Yes, I know English is in fact, a Germanic Language.
However, of the Romance Languages, which is most similar to English?
However, of the Romance Languages, which is most similar to English?
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ElwoodBlues · M
French, once you account for the weird pronunciations.
The British isles were occupied in the 400s by Germanic peoples: Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who all spoke Germanic dialects. In 1066 a Frenchman, William the Conqueror, brought an early version of French to Britain in his conquest. That French slowly merged into the Germanic dialects and English eventually emerged.
Many English words that end in suffixes like -ation, -able, -air, -ism, -ier are very close to their French cognates.
The British isles were occupied in the 400s by Germanic peoples: Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who all spoke Germanic dialects. In 1066 a Frenchman, William the Conqueror, brought an early version of French to Britain in his conquest. That French slowly merged into the Germanic dialects and English eventually emerged.
Many English words that end in suffixes like -ation, -able, -air, -ism, -ier are very close to their French cognates.
