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Hegseth declares, 'I only speak American' to room full of foreign leaders (www.irishstar.com)

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago

and Celtic, Greek, Dutch, Turkish, various Indian/South Asian languages and Arabic.

Yeah, but those are all small-volume loan words. And some of the Turkish ones listed were pass-throughs of Arabic or Persian words.

Not to mention the “French” and “German” you mention were actually Saxon and Norman which became those languages.

There was also a bit of a Norse influence on early English, both lexicon and grammar. And there's some evidence of a few Celtic grammatical constructs having been picked up in early English too, such as the "Do" in "Do you still beat your wife?" which has no Germanic or Romance parallels.