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English [ɪŋglɪʃ] |
Spoken: originally in England; spread to the rest of the British Isles and to the former colonies of the United Kingdom; now a world language also spoken as a first language in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and as a first or subsequent language in many other countries, including India and Singapore. |
Speakers: at least 500,000,000 speakers as a first or subsequent language;[1] over 330,000,000 native speakers; many millions more have some knowledge. |
Language Family: Indo-European |
Germanic |
West Germanic |
English |
Script: Written in the Roman alphabet. |
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English [ɪŋglɪʃ] | |
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Spoken in | Originally in England; spread to the rest of the British Isles and to the former colonies of the United Kingdom; now a world language spoken as a first language in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and as a first or subsequent language in many other countries, including India and Singapore. |
Total speakers | At least 500,000,000 speakers as a first or subsequent language; over 330,000,000 native speakers; many millions more have some knowledge. |
Language family | Indo-European Germanic West Germanic English |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. |
Indo-European (449)
Germanic (53)
West (41)
English (3)
English [eng] (United Kingdom)
Scots [sco] (United Kingdom)
Yinglish [yib] (USA)
English | |
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Spoken in | Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Liberia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, South Africa, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States and many other countries (see article for full list) |
Total speakers | First language: 380 million Second language: 600 million Learners: Over 1 billion[2] |
Language family | Germanic West Germanic Anglo-Frisian Anglic |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | en |
ISO 639-2 | eng |
ISO 639-3 | eng |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. |
- ↑ See Ethnologue.
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