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| style="background: #ccf; text-align: center;" | '''[[English]]''' [ɪŋglɪʃ]
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| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|'''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]], [[Ireland]], [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]] and [[South Africa]] and as a first or subsequent language in many other [[country|countries]], including [[India]] and [[Singapore]].
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| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|''Speakers:'' at least 500,000,000 speakers as a first or subsequent language;<ref>See ''[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=eng Ethnologue]''.</ref> over 330,000,000 [[native speaker]]s; many millions more have some knowledge.
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| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|''Language Family:'' [[Indo-European language|Indo-European]]
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| style="padding-left: 1.1em;"|[[Germanic languages|Germanic]]
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| style="padding-left: 1.1em;"|[[West Germanic languages|West Germanic]]
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| style="padding-left: 1.1em;"|[[English languages|English]]
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| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|''Script:'' Written in the [[Roman alphabet]].
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| name= English [ɪŋglɪʃ]
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| states=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 [[country|countries]], including [[India]] and [[Singapore]].
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| speakers=At least 500,000,000 speakers as a first or subsequent language; over 330,000,000 [[native speaker]]s; many millions more have some knowledge.
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    Germanic  (53)
 
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        English (3)
 
            English  [eng] (United Kingdom)
 
            Scots  [sco] (United Kingdom)
 
            Yinglish  [yib] (USA)
 
{{Infobox Language
| name= English
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| pronunciation=/ˈɪŋglɪʃ/
| states=<!--Please keep this list short and concise.-->[[Australia]], [[Canada]], [[India]], [[Republic of Ireland|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)
| speakers=First language: 380 million <br />Second language: 600 million <br /> Learners: Over 1 billion<ref name="triumph" />
| rank= 2-4 (native speakers) <br /> 1 (total) 
| fam2=[[Germanic languages|Germanic]]
| fam3=[[West Germanic languages|West Germanic]]
| fam4=[[Anglo-Frisian languages|Anglo-Frisian]]
| fam5=[[Anglic languages|Anglic]]
| script=[[Latin alphabet|Latin]]
| nation='''''Exclusive'':''' [[Antigua and Barbuda]], [[Barbados]], [[Belize]], [[Botswana]], [[Brunei]], [[Dominica]], [[The Gambia]], [[Grenada]], [[Guyana]], [[Jamaica]], [[Liberia]], [[The Bahamas]], [[United Kingdom]] ''(de facto)'',  [[United States of America|United States]] ''(de facto)'', [[Australia]] ''(de facto)''  <br>'''''Non-exclusive'':''' [[Cameroon]], [[Canada]], [[Hong Kong]], [[India]], [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]], [[Kenya]], [[Kiribati]], [[Kosovo]], [[Lesotho]], [[Malaysia]], [[Malta]], [[New Zealand]] ''(de facto)'', [[Pakistan]], [[Philippines]], [[Singapore]] ''(de facto)'', [[South Africa]], [[Zimbabwe]]
| iso1=en|iso2=eng|iso3=eng|map=[[Image:Anglospeak.png|center|300px]]<center><small>World countries, states, and provinces where English is a primary language are dark blue; countries, states, and provinces where it is an official, but not a primary language are light blue. </center></small>
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