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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]], [[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]]
| style="padding-left: 2.0em;"|[[Germanic languages|Germanic]]
| style="padding-left: 2.0em;"|[[West Germanic languages|West Germanic]]
| style="padding-left: 2.0em;"|[[English languages|English]]
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| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|''Script:'' Written in the [[Roman alphabet]].
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{{Infobox Language
|name=Cherokee
|nativename={{unicode|ᏣᎳᎩ}} ''Tsalagi''
|familycolor=American
|caption=''Tsalagi'' (''Cherokee'')
|image=
|states=[[United States]]
|region=[[Oklahoma]] and the Cherokee Reservation in [[Great Smoky Mountains]], [[North Carolina]]
|speakers=15,000 to 22,000
|rank=
|fam1=[[Iroquoian languages|Iroquoian]]
|fam2=[[Southern Iroquoian languages|Southern Iroquoian]]
|script=[[Cherokee syllabary]]
|iso1=|iso2=chr|iso3=chr}}
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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]
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
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.
  1. ↑ See Ethnologue.
  2. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named triumph
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