From: David N. Barnett 

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 23:15:34 +0000, adam flinton
 wrote in message :

| > Again, what's the difference 
| > (well actually they're quite different, only some words in Finnish are
taken
| > from Swedish)
| >
| >
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| & surprizingly few from the slavic languages........(i.e. ruski ezik)

Similarly, English is a Germanic language, but much of our vocabulary comes
from French and other Latin-derived languages.

--dnb

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