On occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

—James Nicoll

English is a creole gone feral.

Some poor sheep farmers who thought the Thames was a lovely bit of river spent one thousand years getting rolled by the Picts, the Romans, the Angles, the Normans, the Saxons, the Franks, the Danes... and half of those were just the French wearing different hats. Most of these conquerors, heirs, and particularly rowdy tourists left a significant linguistic impact on that mongrel archipelago of mayonnaise-filled peasants.

false there is just indo european, latin, greek and hungarian