English is either the official language, or one of the official languages, in 57 sovereign states and 30 dependent territories, making it the most
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English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that emerged in early medieval England and has since become a global lingua franca.[4][5][6] The namesake of the language is the Angles,
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English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that emerged in early medieval England and has since become a global lingua franca.[4][5][6] The namesake of the language is the Angles,
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“Expanding-circle” countries are where English is taught as a foreign language[90] – though the character of English as a first, second, or foreign language
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English as the official language to avoid the political and other difficulties inherent in promoting any one indigenous language above the others.[56][57][58] In the
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As the lower classes, who represented the vast majority of the population, remained monolingual English speakers, a primary influence of Norman was as
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Other Norse loanwords include give, get, sky, skirt, egg, and cake, typically displacing a native Anglo-Saxon equivalent. Old Norse in this era retained considerable mutual intelligibility with some dialects of Old
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Between the 8th and 11th centuries, the English spoken in some regions underwent significant changes due to contact with Old Norse, a North Germanic language. Several waves of
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Other Norse loanwords include give, get, sky, skirt, egg, and cake, typically displacing a native Anglo-Saxon equivalent. Old Norse in this era retained considerable mutual intelligibility with some dialects of Old
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