The English language is influenced by Indo-European languages.
English language . It is closely related to the Frisian languages , but its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages , as well as by Latin and Romance languages , particularly French . French ( le français [ lə fʁɑ̃sɛ ] or la langue française [ la lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛz ] ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family . The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of approximately 500 million people mainly in North America , Oceania , Southern Africa , and Central , Western and Northern Europe . Latin ( Latin : lingua latīna , [ ˈlɪŋɡʷa laˈtiːna ] ) is a dead classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages . The Romance languages ( sometimes called the Romanic languages , Latin languages , or Neo-Latin languages ) are the modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin between the sixth and ninth centuries and that thus form a branch of the Italic languages within the Indo-European language family .