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On the other hand, English is a Germanic language and got influenced by French. A nice recent article talked about why English doesn't use accents (because... of French) [1].

Just to say it's not uncommon at all to have languages influence each other.

[1]: https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/why-english-doesnt-use...





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