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Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries
33 2

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

Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

Minority Language
South Africa

Regulated By
-

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.

Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages

Derived From
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
26 8

Phonology

How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
21 11

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
7 6

Time Taken to Learn
6 weeks 3

Greetings

Hello
Hello

Thank You
Thank you

How Are You?
How are you?

Good Night
Good Night

Good Evening
Good Evening

Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon

Good Morning
Good Morning

Please
Please

Sorry
Sorry

Bye
Bye

I Love You
I love you

Excuse Me
Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1
American English

Where They Speak
United States of America

How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00 4

Dialect 2
Hiberno-English

Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00 48

Dialect 3
Welsh English

Where They Speak
United Kingdom

How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00 46

Total No. Of Dialects
188 34

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million 1

Speaking Population
5.43 % 4

Native Speakers
400.00 million 3

Second Language Speakers
400.00 million 1

Native Name
English

Alternative Names
English

French Name
anglais

German Name
Englisch

Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

Ethnicity
English people

History

Origin
5th Century AD

Language Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup
-

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English

Standard Forms
Standard English

Language Position
3 3

Signed Forms
Signed English

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
en

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
eng

ISO 639 2/B
eng

ISO 639 3
eng

ISO 639 6
engs

Glottocode
stan1293

Linguasphere
52-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

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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.

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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.

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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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