How much English comes from Latin?

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[georgebaccett]

BBC report:
English language:

-It uses and depends on the Roman alphabet.

-60% of its vocabulary comes from Latin, compared to only 26% of Germanic vocabulary.

-Its grammar is not completely Germanic, it has parts of grammatical structure from Latin.
For this reason, philologists consider the English language a hybrid language. The information in this video is correct.

By the way, I'm English, greetings from London.

[mizzesorru]

Hi..I'm an italian in london..and I've always said to many of my English friends that English has many Latin words..but many of them never really saw the actual roots of so many English words.. for me learning English has been soo easy just because of the Latin influence..
I'm surprised that your video has only a few comments..I presume many English/Americans are not really interested in knowing how the English language has developed in history ...

[mep]

I'm a Spanish speaker and English has so many words which come from Latin. I'm learning Dutch and this language has much more Germanic words compared to English. That's why English is the easiest Germanic language for someone who speaks a Romance language as their first language.

[amandeepbhoria]

thanks sir that's really awesome.

[SeLigaBrazilzil]

My take is that, any language which uses the Latin alphabet, it is to be considered a Latin rooted language. The resistance of most anglo descendents and not only, to accept it, is all political. Instead, they rather link English to a "Germanic language". The real evidences are not there for the most important part.
English in its pre Latin influence, was made up of short words, German is one of the languages with the longest world as well as its remanescent languages surely known.
Here in the US, most Italian Americans do not know or refuse to that they are latins, not knowing that they are the first generation of latins.
I myself highly value my Latin background, just like anyone from any background or ethnicity should value theirs.

[georgebaccett]

English does not come from Latin, but after the Norman conquest its vocabulary and structure was brutally modified. In a BBC report, the University of Oxford states the following: the English language is made up of this way: Vocabulary: 60% Latin, and only 28% Anglo-Saxon; grammar: 48% Anglo-Saxon structure, 39% Latin structure; the rest of the grammar structure comes from Celtic and Greek. For this reason philologists consider English a Hybrid, saying that English is a hybrid is the right thing to do.

[dasReAlvloc]

It's not surprising ancient Romans spoke Latin. Ancient Romans were in Britain for about 400 years so obviously we took some of their words

[natehartley]

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