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Re: Langfocus: Viking influence on the English language

Postby DaveAgain » Sun Jan 26, 2020 9:44 am

The study "Mutual intelligibility between closely related languages in Europe" did not find any evidence to support the idea of English being more closely related to North Germanic languages than West Germanic languages.

The Germanic language that English listeners had best comprehension of was German.
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Re: Langfocus: Viking influence on the English language

Postby tarvos » Sun Jan 26, 2020 6:42 pm

DaveAgain wrote:The study "Mutual intelligibility between closely related languages in Europe" did not find any evidence to support the idea of English being more closely related to North Germanic languages than West Germanic languages.

The Germanic language that English listeners had best comprehension of was German.


Exposure should be the reason for that.
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