Original sentence: If true, this Pre-English would appear to form a distinct branch from the North and West Germanic language groups.It proposes that English is in fact much more deeply rooted than current orthodoxy suggests.Rather than English being descended from the Old English introduced after the fifth-century Anglo-Saxon invasions, it seems likely that a Germanic language, dubbed Pre-English or Island Germanic, was already spoken in parts of England.Recent research has radically challenged the above, standard history of English