Language that sounds like English

en   Mon Jun 15, 2009 6:29 pm GMT
Which languages do you think sound most like English? Besides the Germanic languages, French, and Shanghaiese Chinese.
stupid rep   Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:42 pm GMT
american
dsdsdsds   Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:13 pm GMT
scottish
Scotty   Tue Jun 16, 2009 12:19 am GMT
Scottish, if you mean the Scots language is a Western Germanic language and/or dialect of English.
pigeon   Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:12 am GMT
Maybe some of the English-based Pidgins?
***   Tue Jun 16, 2009 8:07 am GMT
I am sure that Shanghainese (Hu dialect) or Chinese doesn't sound like English.
really   Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:30 pm GMT
Really? Why not?
Guest   Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:37 pm GMT
Icelandic.
en   Tue Jun 16, 2009 5:05 pm GMT
>> Icelandic <<

Yes it certainly does, but it is a Germanic language.
Guest   Tue Jun 16, 2009 5:10 pm GMT
Ok, but the rest of the Germanic languages don't sound like English at all.

Also French does not sound like English at all.
.   Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:22 pm GMT
Your answer is in the Language Family Tree:

http://www.danshort.com/ie/timeline.htm

And in History of the English Language:

http://www.danshort.com/ie/
guest guest   Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:28 pm GMT
" Which languages do you think sound most like English? Besides the Germanic languages, French, and Shanghaiese Chinese. "


Does it mean that french is suppposed to sounds like english !? ;)
en   Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:58 pm GMT
No, not necessarily.
Leasnam   Tue Jun 16, 2009 8:15 pm GMT
<<Your answer is in the Language Family Tree: >>

Do you mean to say that it is Celtic (Irish, Gaelic, Welsh)?


--not again :\
Opal   Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:54 pm GMT
I heard some people speaking a language that sounded like English (minus rolled 'r's) near Tungusk. Don't know what it was though, but they were natives of the area.