... ."The lingua Franca" is a language that has taken over a thousand years to evolve, mainly through its borrowings from other languages such as French and Latin. English is actually classified as part of the Germanic group of languages. Even though it is the most commonly spoken language today, it is not without it's fault's, which would be its phonetic symbols only, representing ... borrowed by the Germanic groups were: mint, minet, street: strata via when the first English tribes came to settle in England they made contact with the people that had been part of the Roman Empire which prob...

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