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As of 2016, 400 million people spoke English as their first language, and 1.1 billion spoke it as a secondary language. [68] English is the largest language by number of speakers. English is spoken by communities on every continent and on islands in all the major oceans.
- West Germanic Language
English is by far the most-spoken West Germanic language,...
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- Indo-European Language Family
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- English Language in England
The English language spoken and written in England...
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- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited...
- West Germanic Language
The largest, the English Wikipedia, has over 6.8 million articles. As of January 2021, the English Wikipedia receives 48% of Wikipedia's cumulative traffic, with the remaining split among the other languages. The top 10 editions represent approximately 85% of the total traffic.
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. 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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English is the first language in which Wikipedia was written. It was started on 15 January 2001. It is the largest encyclopedia in the world, and the largest version of Wikipedia since April 2019. It has 6,827,966 articles as of 28 May 2024. In October 2015, the total volume of the compressed texts of the English Wikipedia's articles added up ...
