This is the newest version (2023) of my language tree: it’s more extensive and better laid out than the old one. A PDF version is also available; it looks better when printed. If you’re interested in the older one, the image appears below.

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain. [4][5][6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples that migrated to Britain after its Roman occupiers left.

Jan 29, 2025 · The English language is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that is closely related to the Frisian, German, and Dutch languages. It originated in England and is the dominant language of the U.S., …

English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands.

Oct 26, 2014 · Indo-European is the largest language family, followed by Sino-Tibetan, and lastly Afro-Asiatic. The Language Tree below shows languages that come from the same origin. (sorry about the quality. I’ve relabelled some popular languages) The numbers on the tree below are in millions of native speakers.

The English language belongs to the Indo-European language family, which includes languages spoken by over three billion people. This means that English is related to languages like German and Dutch. There are many different dialects of English, and the language has evolved over time.

It explains that many modern European and Asian languages originated from a common ancestral language despite being spoken in regions far apart geographically. The family tree shows how the ancestral language split into different language groups over time as people migrated across Europe and Asia.

This language evolutionary tree is generated fully automatically on the basis of 18 basic vocabulary items and a simplified sound correspondence point system. The farther left the branches get linked together, the more remote the languages are.

The English language has its roots in Anglo-Saxon, a West Germanic language spoken by the Anglo-Saxons who settled in Britain in the 5th century. The earliest form of English was known as Old English, which was spoken until around the 11th century.

The document describes the English language family tree and how it relates to other languages. It explains how languages can be grouped based on descending from a common ancestral language and provides examples of branches within the European languages.