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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; 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
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.