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1 day ago · 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.
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1 day ago · English phonology is the system of speech sounds used in spoken English. Like many other languages, English has wide variation in pronunciation, both historically and from dialect to dialect. In general, however, the regional dialects of English share a largely similar (but not identical) phonological system.
1 day ago · India has no national language. Hindi, with the largest number of speakers, is the official language of the government. English is used extensively in business and administration and has the status of a "subsidiary official language"; it is important in education, especially as a medium of higher education. Each state and union territory has ...
1 day ago · Ethnic group Poles in the United Kingdom Polonia w Wielkiej Brytanii Distribution by regional area at the 2011 census Total population Polish-born residents in the United Kingdom: 840,769 – 1.3% (2021/22 Census) England: 718,251– 1.3% (2021) Scotland: 75,351 – 1.4% (2022) Wales: 24,832 – 0.8% (2021) Northern Ireland: 22,335 – 1.2% (2021) Polish citizens/passports held: 760,146 ...
2 hours ago · The pound ( sign: £) is the main unit of sterling, [4] and the word pound is also used to refer to the British currency generally, [5] often qualified in international contexts as the British pound or the pound sterling. [4] Sterling is the world's oldest currency in continuous use since its inception. [6]
1 day ago · English is the official language of Barbados, and is used for communications, administration, and public services all over the island. In its capacity as the official language of the country, the standard of English tends to conform to vocabulary, pronunciations, spellings, and conventions akin to, but not exactly the same as, those of British ...
1 day ago · e. England in the Middle Ages concerns the history of England during the medieval period, from the end of the 5th century through to the start of the early modern period in 1485. When England emerged from the collapse of the Roman Empire, the economy was in tatters and many of the towns abandoned. After several centuries of Germanic immigration ...
