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Five languages have more than 50 million native speakers in Europe: Russian, German, French, Italian, and English. Russian is the most-spoken native language in Europe, [4] and English has the largest number of speakers in total, including some 200 million speakers of English as a second or foreign language. (See English language in Europe.)
Early Middle English (1150–1350) [19] has a largely Anglo-Saxon vocabulary (with many Norse borrowings in the northern parts of the country) but a greatly simplified inflectional system. The grammatical relations that were expressed in Old English by the dative and instrumental cases were replaced in Early Middle English with prepositional ...
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 [70] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [71] 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.
In areas of Europe where English is not the first language, there are many examples of the mandated primacy of English: for example, many European companies, such as Airbus, Philips, Renault [citation needed], Volvo, etc. have designated English to be the language of communication for their senior management, and many universities offer their ...
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 ...
The English language changed enormously during the Middle English period, in vocabulary, in pronunciation, and in grammar. While Old English is a heavily inflected language , the use of grammatical endings diminished in Middle English . Grammar distinctions were lost as many noun and adjective endings were levelled to -e.
There were 500 Speakers in 1850. ca. 1850: Norn: Indo-European: Northern Isles, United Kingdom: with the death of Walter Sutherland [239] [240] mid-19th century: Shinnecock: Algic: New York, United States: mid-19th century: Betoi: Betoi-Saliban? Orinoco Llanos: ca. 1850s: Kott: Yeniseian: central Siberia, Russia [155] after or during 1840s ...
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.