English

 English belongs is therefore related to most other languages spoken in  and western  from  to  The parent tongue, called Proto-Indo-European, was spoken about 5,000 years ago by nomads believed to have roamed the southeastern European plains. Germanic, one of the language groups descended from this ancestral speech, is usually divided by scholars into three regional groups: East (Burgundian, Vandal, and Gothic, all extinct), North (Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish), and West (German, Dutch and Flemish, Frisian, and English). Although closely related to English, German remains far more   conservative than English in its retention of a fairly elaborate system of  inflections. Frisian, spoken by the inhabitants of the Dutch province of  Frisland and the islands off the west coast of  schewling, is the language most nearly related to Modern English. Icelandic, which has changed little over the last thousand years, is the living Language most nearly resembling Old English in grammatical structure.  family of languages  ​​and is therefore related to most other languages ​​spoken in  Europe  and western  Asia  from  Iceland  to  India . The parent tongue, called Proto-Indo-European, was spoken about 5,000 years ago by nomads believed to have roamed the southeastern European plains.  Germanic , one of the language groups descended from this ancestral speech, is usually divided by scholars into three regional groups:  East  (Burgundian, Vandal, and  Gothic , all extinct), North ( Icelandic ,  Faroese ,  Norwegian ,  Swedish , and  Danish ), and  West  ( German ,  Dutch [and Flemish] , Frisian , and English). Although closely related to English, German remains far more  conservative  than English in its retention of a fairly elaborate system of  inflections . Frisian, spoken by the inhabitants of the Dutch province of  Friesland  and the islands off the west coast of  Schleswig , is the language most nearly related to Modern English. Icelandic, which has changed little over the last thousand years, is the living language most nearly resembling  Old English  in grammatical structure.