Claim: The English language is influenced by Indo-European languages.
Evidence: It is closely related to the Frisian languages , but its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages , as well as by Latin and Romance languages , particularly French.
French -LRB- le français -LSB- lə fʁɑ̃sɛ -RSB- or la langue française -LSB- la lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛz -RSB- -RRB- is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
The Romance languages -LRB- sometimes called the Romanic languages , Latin languages , or Neo-Latin languages -RRB- are the modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin between the sixth and ninth centuries and that thus form a branch of the Italic languages within the Indo-European language family.
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of approximately 500 million people mainly in North America , Oceania , Southern Africa , and Central , Western and Northern Europe.
Latin -LRB- Latin : lingua latīna , -LSB- ˈlɪŋɡʷa laˈtiːna -RSB- -RRB- is a dead classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.