Continental Europe

The spread of English in recent decades as a European lingua franca(at all social levels) has been remarkable, and the emergence of the label ‚Euro-English‘ was probably inevitable,to go along with such other forms as Eurocentric, Eurodollar and euro on its own as the name of a common currency for member states of the European Union.
There are few mainland Western European languages with wich English does not have ties: of a shared Germanic origin (as with German), of such an original plus close historical links (as with Duth and the Scandinavian languages), or with a distruct original but strong cultural and linguistic associations (as with Latin and Greek), or distruct original but a long-term process of acculturation (as with French and Italian). In addition, mainly because of the lingua-franca role of English at the present time, Anglicisms are flowing freely into all major mainland languages. To look at the links adequately, however, it is necessary to begin at the beginning, which was long before English as it is now know came into existence.
Nine languages: Catalan and Gallero and Occitan
3. Geographical or other distinctness
Fifteen languages: the above, plus Andalusian in Spain, Friulian, Ladin, Sardinian, and Sicilian in Italy, and Judaeo-Spanish/Judezmo/Ladino
4. Extinct varieties
A list two languages: Dalmatian(Yugoslavia), Mozarabic(Christians in Moorish Spain)
5. Romance pidgins and creoles
Including Haitian Creole French, Papiamentu(a Portuguese-Spanish-Dutch creole in the Netherlands Antilles), and Seychellois
With the disintegration of the Western Roman Empire, regional forms of Popular Latin became the main means of communication in its many successor communities, often at the expense of earlier vernacuars, such as the Italic dialects in Italy, Spain, and France. In addition, Germanic invaders of Italy, Spain, and France did not retain their own languages, and even as late as the 10th century Scandinavian invaders gave up Norse in favour of French when they settled...

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