How do we know English is West Germanic?

Links: Germanic sound shifts:    • Summarizing Germanic sound shifts   Germanic grammatical shifts:    • Summarizing Germanic grammatical shifts   Translations: 4:11: (Haitian Creole) The vocabulary is overwhelmingly French, over 80% of it, including the most common words in the language (remember that- it’ll come up again later). (This is just what I’m saying)