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Old 06-23-09, 01:43 PM   #11
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My recall of western European history makes nearly all the peoples Germanic in origin. [...] It's really pretty much just the Mohammedans and Celts that are not Germanic.
Only a small part of all the european countries are Germanic. The Netherlands, Flanders, Germany, Austria, Scandinavia and England could be considered Germanic. France, Wallonia, Spain and Italy are Latin, Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Brittany (and to some extent England too) are Celtic. Most countries in Eastern Europe are Slavic.
That said, of course it isn't as black and white as I describe it here. All of these cultures have been influenced by others, and also within these cultural groups there are a lot of differences.
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Conversational latin diverged into french, spanish, italian, german and english.
Nope, the Germanic languages, including German and English, all descend from Proto-Germanic.
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