When people of one language conquer another there is always extensive borrowing of vocabulary. There's one major exception to the rule, which is that the old Celtic languages of Britain left almost no traces in modern English (I only use three of these)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Brittonic_origin …
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Very few white Americans are of any Indian descent at all but in US English dozens of words and tons of placenames have an Indian origin. The average Englishman traces most of his ancestry to the old Celts and yet almost none of their language was passed on. They lost hard.
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The latest estimate from the big Viking paper was that no more than 6% of their ancestry is Danish Viking, but a huge chunk from earlier is Danish-like (A-S). The numbers here vary a lot from paper but about 25-45%. In any case they are more like the Irish than continentals.
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