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English is a West Germanic Indo-European language that originated from the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread to southeastern Scotland. With extensive influence from Great Britain and the United Kingdom since the 18th century and from the United States since the mid-20th century, English has become widely dispersed in the world, becoming the lingua franca in many regions. English originated from the fusion of languages and dialects collectively called Old English, brought by Germanic peoples (Anglo-Saxons) to the east coast of Great Britain in the 5th century. The word English derives from the name of the Angles and the ancestral region of Angeln (in Schleswig-Holstein).
