English is a language that started in Anglo-SaxonEngland. It is originally from Anglo-Frisian and Old Saxondialects. English is now a global language. It is used worldwide. There are about 375 million nativespeakers (people who use it as their first language) in the world.
Frisian is the language closest to English. The vocabulary of English was influenced by other Germanic languages in the early Middle Ages and later by Romance languages, especially French.