Originally, it was a Germanic language and then after the Norman Conquest in 1066, there was an enormous influx of French words.

最初，它是日耳曼语，而在1066年诺曼征服之后，大量法语词汇涌入（英语）。

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Icelandic, a North Germanic language, is the main language of Iceland.

冰岛语，北日耳曼语族语言，也是冰岛主要语言。

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So both stammer and stutter evolved from the same Germanic language family.

因此，stammer 和 stutter 都由日耳曼语语系演化而来。

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Instead, the assimilation of elements of French into English produced Middle English and, with it, the basic profile of the language we still speak: a large vocabulary of Germanic and French-derived words organized with a simplified Germanic grammar.

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Two centuries of Norman rule in England after 1066 significantly changed the Germanic grammar and dumped a large amount of French vocabulary into the language.

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