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Language Type Spoken in Numbers of speakers in the UK English: Germanic (West Germanic) : Throughout the United Kingdom UK (2021 data): 91.1% (52.6 million) of usual residents, aged three years and over, had English (English or Welsh in Wales) as a main language (down from 92.3%, or 49.8 million, in 2011) [22]
The English language spoken and written in England encompasses a diverse range of accents and dialects. The language forms part of the broader British English, along with other varieties in the United Kingdom. Terms used to refer to the English language spoken and written in England include English English [1] [2] and Anglo-English. [3] [4]
Pages in category "Languages of the United Kingdom" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The English language is the official and most spoken language of the United Kingdom. [371] [372] The United Kingdom proactively promotes the language globally to build connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide. [373] [374] It is estimated that 95% of the UK's population are monolingual English ...
Brittonic languages, also known as the British Celtic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family Common Brittonic, an ancient language, once spoken across Great Britain. Welsh language, spoken natively in Wales and the England-Wales border, is historically referred to in English as the British language (among other names).
British English (abbreviations: BrE, en-GB, and BE) [3] is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United Kingdom. [6] More narrowly, it can refer specifically to the English language in England, or, more broadly, to the collective dialects of English throughout the British Isles taken as a single umbrella variety, for instance additionally incorporating Scottish English ...
It is spoken mainly by youths in multicultural parts of working-class London. The speech of Jamaicans, or children of Jamaican parents, in London shows interesting combinations of the Jamaican accent with the London accent. For example, in Jamaican English, /θ/ is replaced by [t], for example both /boːt/.
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...