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| style="background: #ccf; text-align: center;" | '''[[English]]''' [ɪŋglɪʃ] | | 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]]. | | 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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Revision as of 02:14, 24 April 2007
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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, Ireland, 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. |
Wikipedia English box:
| 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. | |
- ↑ See Ethnologue.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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