The German Language

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There’s no disagreement here. I’m not sure why it is called the German language family, but I did not take that to mean that English came from German.

Both have Indo Germanic roots. And there's no doubt that Celts settled in both, what is now called Germany, Austria and Northern Italy and the british Isles. And France, for that matter. There were prehistoric trade routes all over Europe. Later on, all these territories, to a large degree, came under Roman influence and still later, Germanic tribes settled on the British Isles. William the Conqueror came from France, but he was a Norman - originally a member of a Scandinavian tribe. The languages are most certainly a result of all these influences.