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- The English Wikipedia is the English-language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. It was founded on 15 January 2001 as Wikipedia's first edition and, as of November 2020 , has the most articles of any edition, at 6,268,179. As of March 2021, 11% of articles in all Wikipedias belong to the English-language edition.
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English is an Indo-European language and belongs to the West Germanic group of the Germanic languages. Old English originated from a Germanic tribal and linguistic continuum along the Frisian North Sea coast, whose languages gradually evolved into the Anglic languages in the British Isles, and into the Frisian languages and Low German/Low Saxon on the continent.
- Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English
- 360–400 million (2006), L2 speakers: 750 million;, as a foreign language: 600–700 million
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The English Wikipedia is, along with the Simple English Wikipedia, one of two English-language editions of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was founded on 15 January 2001 as Wikipedia's first edition and, as of 18 June 2022, has the most articles of any edition, at 6,520,567. [1]
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Germanic tribes (Saxons, Angles, and Jutes) came to Britain from around 449 AD. They made their home in the south and east of the island, pushing out the Celtic Britons who were there before them, or making them speak the English language instead of the old Celtic languages. Some people still speak Celtic languages today, in Wales (Welsh) and elsew...
English grammar started out based on Old English, which is considered to be a Germanic language. After the Norman French conquered England in 1066, parts of the Latin languagewere brought to the English language by the Norman French.
Written English uses a range of historical spellingpatterns that changed over time due to political and cultural changes. As a result, different words can use the same letters and combinations for very different sounds. For example, "-ough" was once a guttural but has become different in "through" (threw), "rough" (ruff), "dough" (doe) or "cough" (...
Nearly 60% of the vocabularyin the English language comes from Latin and its descendants, mainly French: 1. Langue d'oïl (French): 29.3% 2. Latin, including modern scientific and technical Latin and Frankish (Germanic language): 28.7% 3. Germanic languages: 24% (inherited from Old English/Anglo-Saxon, Proto-Germanic, Old Norse, etc. without includi...
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Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. English 6 458 000+ articles 日本語 1 314 000+ 記事
The Simple English Wikipedia is an English-language version of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, written at a basic level of English. [1] It was made on September 18, 2001. [2] All of the articles in the Simple English Wikipedia use shorter sentences and easier words and grammar than the regular English Wikipedia. [3]