True, it is English with a regional variation
But some of those variations make it very much closer to its joint roots in other European languages. Many Scots words are also used in German, for example. Gelt is money in both Scots and German and ken is know in Scots, kennenlernen is to get to know in German. Sometimes the word order is entirely different too.

And I seem to remember reading somewhere - this is entirely going off at a tangent - that one of the Indian languages uses exactly the same grammatical structure as English, not because they are from the same root but because English was forced upon the native speakers and they colonised it for their own language.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 23 Jul 2008, 10:38, Reply)