At the root of it all

Hailey Heseltine reporter3.riverbendnews@gmail.com Many people think of English as one of several Romance languages, a group of languages that emerged from Late Latin in Europe, some of which are Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese. However, that is not the truth. Though it has significant roots in Latin, English is not a Romance language at all—it is Germanic, and many of German's influences in it are still visible today if you know where to look. Germanic languages are divided into the categories of North, West, and East. English is specifically West Germanic, along with a few others, such as Dutch, Yiddish, Frisian and Modern German. This means that English originated from Anglo