English is a West Germanic language that descended from Ingvaeonic languages carried to Britain by Anglo-Saxon immigrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark, and the Netherlands between the middle of the fifth and the seventh centuries AD. Beginning in the middle of the fifth century, the Anglo-Saxons immigrated to the British Isles and eventually came to rule most of southern Great Britain. In the early Middle Ages, settlers in England and southern and eastern Scotland spoke a series of Ingvaeonic languages, which replaced the Celtic languages (and potentially British Latin) that had previously been in use. Old English reflected the several Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that had been founded throughout Britain. Eventually, the Late West Saxon dialect took over.