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English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in Early Medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
American English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States. English is the most widely spoken language in the United States; the de facto common language used in government, education and commerce; and an official language of most U.S. states (32 out of 50).
English-speaking world. 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 ...
It starts “ Én Istenem, Jóistenem, lecsukódik már a szemem ” and means, in its entirety, “My God, my good God, already my eyes are closing. But yours are open, Father. While I sleep ...
In the 2021 census in Northern Ireland 12.4% of people had some ability in the Irish language and 10.4% of people had some ability in the Ulster-Scots language. Over 92,000 people in Scotland (just under 2 per cent of the population) had some Gaelic language ability, including 72 per cent of those living in the Outer Hebrides.
Vietnam China Laos Cambodia. The Nguyễn dynasty ( chữ Nôm: 茹阮, Vietnamese: Nhà Nguyễn; chữ Hán: 朝阮, Vietnamese: triều Nguyễn) was the last Vietnamese dynasty, which was preceded by the Nguyễn lords and ruled the unified Vietnamese state independently from 1802 to 1883 before being a French protectorate.
Guugu Yimidhirr. notes by Johann Flierl, Wilhelm Poland and Georg Schwarz, culminating in Walter Roth 's The Structure of the Koko Yimidir Language in 1901. [199] [200] A list of 61 words recorded in 1770 by James Cook and Joseph Banks was the first written record of an Australian language. [201] c. 1891. Galela.
Spoken language families. The language families of the world. The language families of Africa. Map of the Austronesian. Map of major Dravidian. Distribution of the Indo-European language family branches across Eurasia. Area of the Papuan. Map of the Australian. Distribution of language families and isolates north of Mexico at first contact.