The language: Modern English: About 300 years old (or less for really modern/colloquial English) Early Modern English: About 450 years old (Shakespeare spoke an early form of this) Middle English:...
Old English (up to about 1200) has an exclusively Germanic vocabulary, complex declension systems, a completely separate set of pronouns for two people as opposed to one or three, and odd syntax....
The Celtics brought an early Germanic type of language to England. Enter the Romans and Latin. So Latin had some influence on the Celtic languages. The Anglo Saxons entered England next & this...