英语是西日耳曼语系的一个分支。西日耳曼语系属于印欧语族。

English is a language branch belonging to the West Germanic line of the Indo-European family.

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有趣的是，欧洲的两个非印欧语系的语族——芬兰-乌戈尔语[Finno - Ugric](匈牙利语、芬兰语和爱沙尼亚语)和巴斯克语[Basque]却根本没有“语法性别”。

Interestingly, the two non-Indo-European language groups of europe-finno-ugric (Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian) and basque-have no grammatical genders.

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荷兰语，和英语很像，英、德、荷兰语同属印欧语系日耳曼语族西支。

Dutch, and English like the British, German, Dutch belong to the same Indo-European Germanic West Extension.

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荷兰语，和英语很像，英、德、荷兰语同属印欧语系日耳曼语族西支。

Dutch, and English like the British, German, Dutch belong to the same Indo-European Germanic West Extension.

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