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
  
Wales
  
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
  
Wales
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Argentina, United Kingdom
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Welsh Language Commissioner
  
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.
  
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
English Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
British Language
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
Helô
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
Diolch
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
Sut ydych chi?
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
Nos da
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
Noswaith dda
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
P'nawn da
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
Bore da
  
Please
Please
  
os gwelwch yn dda
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
  
Bye
Bye
  
Hwyl
  
I Love You
I love you
  
Dw i'n dy garu di
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
Esgusodwch fi
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Patagonian Welsh
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
Argentina
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Y Wyndodeg
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
Gwynedd
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Y Bowyseg
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
Powys
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
7.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
7.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
Not Available
  
Native Name
English
  
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Cymraeg
  
French Name
anglais
  
gallois
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Kymrisch
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Welsh people
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Celtic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Brythonic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Welsh
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
cy
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
cym
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
wel
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
cym
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
wels1247
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
50-ABA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Fusional