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English belongs to the Indo-European-Germanic-West Germanic branch. According to the number of native English speakers, English is the official language of the most used countries, the most widely used second language in the world, and the official language of the European Union and many international organizations and Commonwealth countries. The number of native English speakers ranks third in the world, after Chinese and Spanish.

English evolved from the language spoken by the Germanic people of Anglo-Saxon and Jute tribes who immigrated to the British Isles from Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands and surrounding areas, and spread to all parts of the world through active British colonization. Due to contact with many national languages in history, vocabulary has changed from unitary to pluralistic, grammar has changed from "more inflections" to "less inflections", and pronunciation has changed regularly.