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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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33
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.4 Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
1.6 Minority Language
South Africa
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Latin
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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26
Rank: 8 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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21
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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7
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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6 weeks
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Hello
3.2 Thank You
Thank you
3.3 How Are You?
How are you?
3.4 Good Night
Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
Good Morning
3.8 Please
Please
3.9 Sorry
Sorry
3.10 Bye
Bye
3.11 I Love You
I love you
3.12 Excuse Me
Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
American English
4.1.1 Where They Speak
United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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225,000,000.00
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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4,500,000.00
Rank: 15 (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Welsh English
4.3.1 Where They Speak
United Kingdom
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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2,500,000.00
Rank: 14 (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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188
Rank: 34 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
About English L..
1,200.00 million
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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5.43 %
Rank: 4 (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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400.00 million
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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400.00 million
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
English
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
anglais
5.3.5 German Name
Englisch
5.4 Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
5th Century AD
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard English
6.3.3 Language Position
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3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed English
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
en
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
eng
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
eng
7.3 ISO 639 3
eng
7.4 ISO 639 6
engs
7.5 Glottocode
stan1293
7.6 Linguasphere
52-ABA
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Know Alphabets in English

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About English Language, where you will learn the number of letter in English Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in English. English phonology gives English vowels and English consonants. There are 5 vowels and 21 consonants in English language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if English is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about English language is given in detail in this section.

All English countries

Want to explore all English countries? About English language serves you with all English Speaking Countries. Countries that use English as official language are called as English countries.

  • Countries that use English as their National Language are: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use English as second language are: India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn English greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn English Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about English language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in English language.Learn English greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Hello
  • Thank you: Thank you
  • Good Morning: Good Morning
  • Good Evening: Good Evening
  • Good Afternoon: Good Afternoon

All English Language Codes

Get to know all English language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All English Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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