It's a long story, anon, and hard to explain in a linear fashion what is a fundamentally … "Covariant" development.
For example, why is it that English is a Latinized German? To understand this, you have to look back to the conquering of Briton by external forces. The French were the predominant power in Europe for centuries and to be considered "literate", you had to know either Latin or French.
To understand where much of this came from, you have to go back to what I call the hamburgers and brambleberries (hapsburgs and babenburgs) and the warring of the germanic tribes when the catholic church decided to begin backing various nobles or lords as divinely right.
Thus, the sun may never set… But …