Linguist Makes Sensational Claim: English Is a Scandinavian Language
ScienceDaily (Nov. 27, 2012) — "Have you
considered how easy it is for us Norwegians to learn English?" asks Jan
Terje Faarlund, professor of linguistics at the University of Oslo.
"Obviously there are many English words that resemble ours. But there is
something more: its fundamental structure is strikingly similar to
Norwegian. We avoid many of the usual mistakes because the grammar is
more or less the same.
Faarlund and his colleague Joseph Emmonds, visiting professor from
Palacký University in the Czech Republic, now believe they can prove
that English is in reality a Scandinavian language, in other words it
belongs to the Northern Germanic language group, just like Norwegian,
Danish, Swedish, Icelandic and Faroese. This is totally new and breaks
with what other language researchers and the rest of the world believe,
namely that English descends directly from Old English. Old English, or
Anglo-Saxon, is a West Germanic language, which the Angles and Saxons
brought with them from Northern Germany and Southern Jylland when they
settled in the British Isles in the fifth century.
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