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English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
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The Anglo-Frisian languages are the Anglic (English, Scots, Fingallian†, and Yola†) and Frisian (North Frisian, East Frisian, and West Frisian) varieties of the West Germanic languages.
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Old English ( Englisċ, pronounced [ˈeŋɡliʃ] ), or Anglo-Saxon, [1] is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
Scots [note 1] is an Anglic language variety in the West Germanic language family, spoken in Scotland and parts of Ulster in the north of Ireland (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots ). [3] .
Anglic: English. Scots. Frisian: West Frisian. North Frisian. Saterland Frisian. Hatched areas show where multilingualism is common. The Anglo-Frisian languages are West Germanic languages, which include Anglic (or English) and Frisian. They are different from other West Germanic languages because of a number of sound changes.
