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Secondary and tertiary education is conducted exclusively in English. Today, 88% of Malta's population speak English (about 400,000 people). However, only about 10% speak English as a first language (about 48,000), as the majority speak Maltese as a first language. The variety of English commonly spoken in Malta is based on British English.
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [69] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [70] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
Europe 33,000 No (Both English and Llanito are spoken on a daily basis as the primary languages) Guam [f] United States Oceania 173,000 Yes (co-official with Chamorro) Hong Kong [g] [2] China: Asia 7,097,600 No (but de jure and de facto co-official with Chinese [40]) Isle of Man [h] United Kingdom Europe 80,058 Yes Jersey [i] [2] United Kingdom ...
Scots continues to heavily influence the spoken English of the Scottish people today. It is much more similar to dialects in the north of England than to 'British' English, even today. The introduction of King James Version of the Bible into Scottish churches also was a blow to the Scots language, since it used Southern English forms.
Trinidad and Tobago – in the predominantly Trinidadian English Creole-speaking country where Trinidadian English is official, Spanish was introduced as the second language of bilingual traffic signs and is spoken among 5% of the population fluently. [58] and is generally the "first foreign language". [59]
A color-coded map of most languages used throughout Europe. There are over 250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family. [1] [2] Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language.
Trinidad and Tobago: 1 English Trinidadian Creole Tunisia: 1 Arabic Arabic Turkey: 1 Turkish: Kurdish Turkish Turkmenistan: 1 Turkmen: Turkmen Russian Tuvalu: 2 Tuvaluan; English; Tuvaluan; English; Uganda: 2 English; Swahili [76] Ukraine: 1 Ukrainian Russian (Autonomous Republic of Crimea) Crimean Tatar (Autonomous Republic of Crimea) United ...
This is a list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe only. List. Rank Name ... English: 63,000,000 [6] 260,000,000 [3] 6 Spanish ...