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C++ is like English - widely used, and steals like hell from other languages.

D is probably more like, hmm, Esperanto? Carefully designed but few people know about it.

Haskell would probably be Lojban...

While I'm a C++ fan, I'd readily concede it's much closer kin to (verbose) German than (laconic) English.

Java's even more verbose, so it probably has the stronger claim on German,* which I guess makes C++ Danish and Perl English. :)