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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

33
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

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

26
Rank: 8 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

21
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

7
Rank: 6 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

6 weeks
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

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

225,000,000.00
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Hiberno-English

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

4,500,000.00
Rank: 15 (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Welsh English

4.3.1 Where They Speak

United Kingdom

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

2,500,000.00
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

188
Rank: 34 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

1,200.00 million
Rank: 1 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

5.43 %
Rank: 4 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

400.00 million
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

400.00 million
Rank: 1 (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

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

3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

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.