Britain, the United States and other countries and regions, or the official language of Mandarin. 7 century literature, the text adopted the Latin alp

Britain, the United States and other countries and regions, or the official language of Mandarin. 7 century literature, the text adopted the Latin alphabet. For the United Nations official and working languages of.
English is Indo-European languages in the Germanic languages of the West Germanic languages. Indo-European languages is the world's largest languages, including 100 languages, mainly in Europe, the Americas and Asia and other places. Stresses Indo-European languages language about the number of half the world's population. In various languages, English and German is close. English originated in the United Kingdom. In about AD 499, Xibei Ou living in the three Germanic tribes - Anglo, Saxon and Zhute - British violations. They conquer the British Isles after the English gradually form a unified nation, and their use of dialect is gradually integrated into a new language - Anglo - Saxon, and this is Old English (Old English, AD 450 to 1150 ). During this period, the English-speaking people but millions of people, and its use of merely confined to the British island. Since then, English has a long history of evolution, from Middle English (Middle English, 1150年至1500), the development of today's modern English (Modern English, 1500-present). As the world's most open of the language, in its 1,500 years of development process, the English eclectic, almost from the world in any language are more or less absorb vocabulary. Today, English has become the world's largest vocabulary, the most extensive application of the language, but it is also the closest to the common language of human language. According to the number of English as their mother tongue, English may be the world's third largest or fourth largest language (after May 1996 of the "21st Century", currently the world's native English-speaking number is 300000000 70 million people), but it is the world's most extensive second language, after the number of Chinese. As early as 1919 and at Versailles, English had become the most important areas of foreign languages. Numerous international organizations - from the International Olympic Committee to the United Nations - all in English as the main working language. Many heads of government are fluent in English. Such as former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl will be able to use fluent English and former U.S. President Bill Clinton chat. The two-century England and the United States in foreign countries, cultural, economic, military, political and scientific fields, such as making English the leading position as an international language. English is the United Nations one of the five working languages. And English is closest to the Frisian, this language is still being in the northern Friesland province of the Netherlands about 50 million people use. Some people think that Scots Gaelic and English is almost a separate language, and some people think it is a dialect of English. Scots traditionally been considered a separate language (some people even think that Ebonics (American English) is an independent language, but this is very controversial). In addition to Frisian, is the closest English in the Netherlands and Germany north of the eastern lowland Saxon. Other relevant languages include Dutch, Afrikaans and German. Norman conquest in the 11th century Britain, a lot French vocabulary, greatly enriched the English language.


English-speaking countries and regions ---------------------------------------------- --- English-speaking countries around the world total of 172.
Using English as the official language are:
* United Kingdom
* Australia
* Bahamas
* Botswana (but Mandarin is Setswana)
* Canada (together with the French)
* Fiji (Fiji but Mandarin is the language)
* China - Hong Kong (together with the Chinese dialect Cantonese)
* India (along with Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit )
* Kenya (together with the Kiswahili)
* Kiribati
* Nigeria
* Pakistan
* Barbados
* Bermuda
* Ireland (But a second language, the first language is Irish)
* South Africa (together with Afrikaans, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Soe care language, language Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Ban Fig.1 language, Zulu)
* New Zealand (on the habits of the official languages; other legal provisions of the Maori language)
* Singapore (together with the Malay, Tamil and Chinese. Mandarin is the Malay language)
* Philippines (but Mandarin is Filipino)
* Gambia
* Guyana
* Jamaica
* St. Kitts and Nevis
* Trinidad and Tobago
* Puerto Rico (together with the Spanish)
* Parts of the United States. U.S. federal government not an official language, English is the language used on the first, rather than legal requirements. English, or in the following areas is the official language:
AL
Arizona
Arkansas
Arkansas
CO
Florida
Georgia State
Hawaii (Hawaii, together with language)
Illinois
Indiana State
Kentucky
LA
Mississippi
Montana
NE
New Hampshire
New Mexico (with Spanish)
North Carolina
North Dakota
State of South Carolina Luolai
South Dakota
TN
Virginia
Wyoming
Malta
In addition, the English in Europe and Japan is the most common as a foreign language to learn the language (32.6%), followed by French, German and Spanish. Basic English is the international exchanges in order to simplify the use of English. It is usually some aircraft manufacturers and other written manuals for international business and exchange. The Far East some schools it as a basis to teach English.

English dialects ------------------------------------------------ ------- Here referred to the English dialect, is that British dialects native language, English dialect with the following standards in both English grammar, or spelling words and word order on the significant differences in general can That these English dialect and standard English are two kinds of totally different language, not only that these English dialects even when the state standards in English and there are substantial differences between.
Therefore, like the United States to distinguish between English-speaking types such as American English and British English although there are some differences but it does not like these over the same dialect of English, American English and British English is the same, and the more English dialect these can not be The.