English language

English
English
Pronunciation	/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
Region	(see below)
Native speakers	First language: 309–400 million ; Second language: 199 million–1.4 billion; Overall: 500 million–1.8 billion (date missing)
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Anglo–Frisian Anglic English; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin (English variant)
Official status
Official language in	53 countries; United Nations; European Union; Commonwealth of Nations ; CoE ; NATO ; NAFTA ; OAS ; OIC ; PIF ; UKUSA
Language codes
ISO 639-1	en
ISO 639-2	eng
ISO 639-3	eng
Linguasphere	52-ABA
	[[File: Countries where English is an official or de facto official language, or national language Countries where it is an official but not primary language\|300px]]

↑ English Adjective - Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary - Oxford University Press ©2010.
↑ see: Ethnologue (1984 estimate); The Triumph of English, The Economist, 20 Dec. 2001; Ethnologue (1999 estimate); "20,000 Teaching Jobs". Oxford Seminars. Retrieved 18 February 2007.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 "Lecture 7: World-Wide English". _EHistLing. Retrieved 26 March 2007.
↑ Ethnologue (1999 estimate);

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English
Pronunciation	/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/^[1]
Region	(see below)
Native speakers	First language: 309–400 million Second language: 199 million–1.4 billion^[2]^[3] Overall: 500 million–1.8 billion^[3]^[4] (date missing)
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Anglo–Frisian Anglic English
Writing system	Latin (English variant)
Official status
Official language in	53 countries United Nations European Union Commonwealth of Nations CoE NATO NAFTA OAS OIC PIF UKUSA
Language codes
ISO 639-1	`en`
ISO 639-2	`eng`
ISO 639-3	`eng`
Linguasphere	`52-ABA`
[[File: Countries where English is an official or de facto official language, or national language Countries where it is an official but not primary language \|300px]]