What is the closest language to English?

American

>>53318832
If you count American English as another language then that, if not probably another language that comes from Roman

Frisian

Scots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cENbkHS3mnY

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>>53318899

>the "scots" "language"

>>53318832
french

>>53318899

literally even scots dont think its a language

>A 2010 Scottish Government study of "public attitudes towards the Scots language" found that 64% of respondents (around 1,000 individuals being a representative sample of Scotland's adult population) "don't really think of Scots as a language"

Afrikaans

>>53318832

Google says Frisian

Dutch

>>53319186
i thought it was dutch

>>53318832
German? I find it to be like a harder version of english.

>>53321891
So doing but only because we have more contact with the English language since we are born.

>>53321969
>so doing
*So do I
Dumb autocorrector.

>>53319444
>Frisian
>Dutch
Thanks Paraguay

It's Frisian. Certain words and phrases in both languages are pronounced the same and mean the same.

>>53319142
It's certainly not a language. A dialect, perhaps. Many people just speak standard English with a few dialect words thrown in and a lot of slang.

>>53318832
JES AJ EM SPIK INGLISZ FLUENTLI, HAŁ AR YOU TUDEJ, MAJ FREND?

>>53324003
Scots would certainly become a new language if not for the internet and standardized English orthography.

I mean just look at this shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le_uNGdpa4c

What fuck happen in Scotland?

>>53318832
Swedish, Norwegian and Danish. In no particular order.

>>53318899
tbqhwyatpif "Scots" should refer to Scottish Gaelic, not a Germanic dialect. The word "Scot" does come from the Latin for Gael after all.

Here a Frisian song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZon1B6a5Z4

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French if you go by vocabulary
>inb4 muh most used meme words

Danish.