english_language | spokenin | great_britain <tsp> united_states | ethnicgroup | asian_americans <tsp> united_states | language | english_language <tsp> a_severed_wasp | country | united_states <sep> english is a west germanic language in the indo-european language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval england it is named after the angles, one of the ancient germanic peoples that migrated to the island of great britain existing on a dialect continuum with scots and then most closely related to the low saxon and frisian languages, modern english is genealogically germanic however, its vocabulary also shows major influences from french (about 28% of english words) and latin (also about 28%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by old norse (a north germanic language) speakers of english are called anglophones 
the language of the united states and great britain is english. the united states has an ethnic group called asian americans and is where a severed wasp originates from.the great britain english language is a west germanic language