The Ultimate Ancestors of English

english is algam of so many different influences. But we probably start with m old English, displacing emthe language of the celts. And then er, quite soon after, we have the vikings, of course. They were savage, as we know, although after a while, they did co quite happily with em, with the natives. So that's our sort of ultimate, a sort of forbear, if you like. The normans flooded english with their aristocratic french. We've got r and oe goin to get really nurdy,. You've got m  proto indo european - an ancient, ancient language which gave us so many