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[Zackback]

It's either Greek, Spanish or French.
I know for sure it isn't any others.

So which one is it?

[Fox]

[Brooks]

Danish or the Dutch dialect Frisian, spoken off the mainland of Holland.

[thrylos]

English has borrowed the most words from (Norman) French and (Middle-High) German, while most scientific words come from Latin and Greek.

Linguistically, Frisian, and to a lesser extent, Dutch and Danish, are the closest to English, as Brooks mentioned, though I wouldn't call Frisian a 'Dutch dialect' as it is it's own language. (As opposed to Flemish and Afrikaans, which are Dutch dialects).

[metalhead]

The OP knows for sure that it is not any language that is not Greek or Spanish or French, so why mention other languages? The OP clearly knows what he is talking about.

[Zackback]

[metalhead]

Out of Afrikaans, Dutch, Swedish and Norwegian Afrikaans should be the easiest to learn, grammar-wise, as it has no gender distinctions when it comes to nouns. But I am not sure what you mean by most similar in any case, you wouldn't be able to understand any of them merely by reading or listening to these languages without knowing any of them. I purposely left out Danish because anyone who has listened to Danish for any period of time will know that the pronunciation is whack.

With Dutch you will most likely struggle with the 'g' sound, while with Norwegian there is no standard Norwegian so it really depends what dialect you learn (spoken Norwegian always seems to sound happy and sometimes silly because of that to my ears), and obviously with Swedish that horrid Skåne accent from the south would be tough for any native speaker. But yes, you could learn one of the above languages fairly quickly as a native English speaker, they're easier (grammatically at least) than German I would say. For something like Swedish where the whole country is based on everyone being equal there isn't really a polite way to say something/address someone so that makes it easier, too.

[ttompatz]

I am pretty sure that American is probably closer to English than any of the other European languages.

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[aq8knyus]

[krnpowr]

[andrewchon]

[young_clinton]

Lower German, a language which is spoken by some in the area that the Saxons originated from before they left for Britain is supposed to be very similar to Old English. Many Lower German words are supposed to be almost the same or the same as English. Lower German is different from Higher German which is the common language in Germany.

[EastisEast]

Atlantian...from the Pre-Hyborian Age.

I'm sure Conan spoke it.