English is actually classified as part of the Germanic group of languages. ... As time went on, each civilization ( Greek, Roman and later English ) broke away from Ehly II the above mentioned language and started to develop their own closely linked one ( Theme 40). ... Some of the words borrowed by the Germanic groups were: mint, minet, street: strata via when the first English tribes came to settle in England they made contact with the people that had been part of the Roman Empire which probably spoke a form of Latin." ... (Robinson 24) ...

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