Is English a Scandinavian language? What do you think?

Question

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121127094111.htm

Old English died out

"Modern English is a direct descendant of the language of Scandinavians who settled in the British Isles in the course of many centuries, before the French-speaking Normans conquered the country in 1066," says Faarlund. He points out that Old English and Modern English are two very different languages. Why?

"We believe it is because Old English quite simply died out while Scandinavian survived, albeit strongly influenced of course by Old English,"



Any opinion?

Answer 1

I think it is.. Norse could have easily taken over the British isles, if you ask me.. the Scandinavian languages are much closer to English than German, and I´ve studied both.

Answer 2

No. English is NOT a Scandinavian language, because it did not originate in Scandinavia: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland.



English, like Scandinavian languages are of Germanic origin, because the Angles, who went to Britain, whose language was called Anglo-Saxon / Old English, were of Germanic origin. Having the Vikings who spoke Old Norse in Greenland, caused remnants of this language to be retained in Icelandic. Most, not all, Icelandic words have Old Norse grammar. If Old Norse was spoken in the Americas when Leif Eriksson found it, then it should be called Erikssonland, instead of America, today, then we'd be speaking a new form of Nynorsk instead of American English. The Normandy French conquest by William the first, caused French to be included in the English vocabulary along with millennia+ old Normandy / Old French words and spellings to be used even until this day in British English.

Answer 3

i'm afraid which you have purely component to the story my buddy. The English language as spoken at present is the effect of the impression of many different languages and analyze will coach that in case you circulate a procedures sufficient back it has an Indo-ecu foundation. To over simplify, from the Germanic its origins branched in the time of the Anglo Saxon and then with a heavy Latin impression, some French and Greek we stumble on English. i decide to advise which you analyze the Wikipedia Article, Latin and Greek Derivations. you're suitable that there are various similarities with the German. besides the undeniable fact that German additionally has its roots interior the comparable Indo-ecu foundation.

Answer 4

Germanic

Answer 5

Its structure is Germanic, so therefore, it is a Germanic language.