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| Extinct: no |
| Family: Indo European |
| Branch: Germanic - West Germanic |
| Continent: Europe |
| Country: United Kingdom |
| Region: Also spoken in 104 other countries including American Samoa, Andorra, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Botswana, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Denmark. |
| Countries Where Spoken: 55,000,000 first language speakers in United Kingdom (1984 estimate). Population total all countries 341,000,000 first language speakers (1999 WA), 508,000,000 including second language speakers (1999 WA). American Samoa, Angilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Aurtralia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Botswana, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islamds, Brunei, Camerron, Canada, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Dominica, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Honduras, India, Ireland, Israel, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lebanoon, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Midway Islands, Montserrat, Namibia, Nauru, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Pitcairn, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, St. Helena, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Swazilands, Tanzania, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, U. S. Virgin Islands, Uganda, USA, Vanuatu, Wake Island, Westorn Samoa, Zambia, Zimbabwe. |
| Countries Where Official: United Kingdom |
| Native Speakers: 341,000,000 |
| Speakers Total: 508,000,000 |
| Phrasebase members who speak this language at a native level: 3,211 |
| Phrasebase members who speak this language at a conversational level: 3,211 |
| Phrasebase members primary language they are trying to learn: 3,559 |
| Phrasebase members secondary language they are trying to learn: 3,918 |
| Three Letter Code: ENG |
| Alternative Names: None |
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| Summary: 60% lexical similarity with German, 27% with French, 24% with Russian. National language. Dictionary. Grammar. SVO; prepositions; genitives after noun heads; articles, adjectives, numerals before noun heads; question word initial; word order distinguishes subject, object, indirect objects, given and new information, topic and comment; active and passive; causative; comparative; consonant and vowel clusters; nontonal. Deciduous forest. Island, plains, hills. Industrial, fishermen, craftsman. Christian. Bible 1382-1989. |
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