What is the closest language to English?
American
>>53318832
If you count American English as another language then that, if not probably another language that comes from Roman
Frisian
Scots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cENbkHS3mnY
>>53318899
>the "scots" "language"
>>53318832
french
>>53318899
literally even scots dont think its a language
>A 2010 Scottish Government study of "public attitudes towards the Scots language" found that 64% of respondents (around 1,000 individuals being a representative sample of Scotland's adult population) "don't really think of Scots as a language"
Afrikaans
>>53318832
Google says Frisian
Dutch
>>53319186
i thought it was dutch
>>53318832
German? I find it to be like a harder version of english.
>>53321891
So doing but only because we have more contact with the English language since we are born.
>>53321969
>so doing
*So do I
Dumb autocorrector.
>>53319444
>Frisian
>Dutch
Thanks Paraguay
It's Frisian. Certain words and phrases in both languages are pronounced the same and mean the same.
>>53319142
It's certainly not a language. A dialect, perhaps. Many people just speak standard English with a few dialect words thrown in and a lot of slang.
>>53318832
JES AJ EM SPIK INGLISZ FLUENTLI, HAŁ AR YOU TUDEJ, MAJ FREND?
>>53324003
Scots would certainly become a new language if not for the internet and standardized English orthography.
I mean just look at this shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le_uNGdpa4c
What fuck happen in Scotland?
>>53318832
Swedish, Norwegian and Danish. In no particular order.
>>53318899
tbqhwyatpif "Scots" should refer to Scottish Gaelic, not a Germanic dialect. The word "Scot" does come from the Latin for Gael after all.
Here a Frisian song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZon1B6a5Z4
French if you go by vocabulary
>inb4 muh most used meme words
Danish.
