2007-04-09 05:49:04 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
hello!
Your question made me refer a lot of old books.It is english which is older than dutch coz u must have seen ,in 6 century BC king edward fought with germans.dutch was formed when different europeans migrated to Denmark in 13 century.
hope i provided you correct information and is a good answer.
2007-04-09 05:58:53 · answer #1 · answered by clarrisa 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dutch is a msipronounciation of Deutsch. Deutsch means German. Dutch is mostly German. The place that is now called England was first ocupied by the Romans, then the Germans and then the French. It was only after the French conquest by William of Normandy (aka William the Conqueror) that English began to develop. The first major poem written in English is Beowulf, which is the translation of a German poem called (get this) Beowulf.
Every language in the world is older than English with the exception of computer programming languages and/or a language you invented to call people bad names without letting them know because they are bigger and way meaner than you.
2007-04-09 15:19:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anpadh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Old Dutch, is the language ancestral to the Low Franconian languages, including Dutch itself. It was spoken between the 6th and 11th centuries, continuing the earlier Old Frankish language.
For more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Dutch
Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon, Old English: Englisc) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. It is a West Germanic language and therefore is closely related to Old Frisian and Old Saxon. It also experienced heavy influence from Old Norse, a member of the related North Germanic group of languages. It is also closely related to the German and Dutch languages.
For more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_language
2007-04-09 13:17:29 · answer #3 · answered by Martha P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
most Probably Dutch. These two languages are hybrids of many other European languages. It's quite tough to detect.
2007-04-09 13:02:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Impossible to determine. They are both hybrids of many other languages, the root for all of which is Indo-European.
2007-04-09 12:53:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋