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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 .
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 ...
Malta: 2 Maltese; English; ... Trinidad and Tobago: 1 English Trinidadian Creole Tunisia: 1 ... Europe Oceania Countries English: 58 23 14 4 3 14
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.
Danish and English are spoken and taught; and all Greenlanders are Danish-Greenlandic bilinguals. Mexico: The government recognizes 62 indigenous languages, [citation needed] including Nahuatl, spoken by more than 1.5 million people and Aguacatec spoken by 27 people, along with Spanish.
Maltese English is an intermediate variety between ESL and EFL, undergoing nativisation. [2] [3] Overall, English in Malta can be divided into "foreign" varieties (e. g. Australian English) and the local dialect, which will be referred to as "Maltese English", but they exist as a continuum, with Received Pronunciation and the low-prestige local variety as its extrema. [4]
The English language in Europe, as a native language, is mainly spoken in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Outside of these states, it has official status in Malta, the Crown Dependencies (the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey), Gibraltar and the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (two of the British Overseas Territories).
The English-speaking world comprises the 88 countries and territories in which English is an official, administrative, or cultural language. In the early 2000s, between one and two billion people spoke English, [1] [2] making it the largest language by number of speakers, the third largest language by number of native speakers and the most widespread language geographically.