English is a Germanic language.

We're talking about people who spoke Germanic languages.

It is the only Germanic language that requires this.

So many of you know, in this room, that English is a Germanic language.

So Leopold II and Frederick William II of Prussia, which is another mainly Germanic state.

In proto Germanic, a sturdy, box like container was described by the word kista, which eventually gave us chest in English.

For several centuries, these tribes lived in Britain, and their Germanic language, Anglo Saxon, became the common language, what we call Old English.

They translated from Latin and Greek into Arabic, into Persian, and then it was translated on into the Germanic languages of Europe and the Romance languages.

For example, most other Germanic language speakers feel completely comfortable talking about rain tomorrow by saying, Morgen regnet es, quite literally to an English ear, It rain tomorrow.

With the Romans gone, the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians quickly sailed across the water, did away with the Celts, and formed kingdoms in the British Isles.

If you think about the Islamic Golden Age, there were lots of translation then they translated from Latin and Greek into Arabic, into Persian, and then it was translated on into the Germanic languages of Europe, and the romance languages, and so light shone upon the Dark Ages of Europe.