English (ꠀꠋꠞꠦꠎ ꠝꠣꠔꠖꠤ ꠪English) belongs to the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. Sometimes English is called "language of Shakespeare".
Luther is often praised for having given, in the 'September Bible', a language to the emerging German nation. In his Bible translation, Tyndale's conscious use of everyday words, without inversions, in a neutral word-order, and his wonderful ear for rhythmic patterns, gave to English not only a Bible language, but a new prose. England was blessed as a nation in that the language of its principal book, as the Bible in English rapidly became, was the fountain from which flowed the lucidity, suppleness and expressive range of the greatest prose thereafter.
