What are the English-speaking countries in the world?

English is the first language in Britain, America, Australia, Bahamas, Ireland, Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Jamaica, New Zealand, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago. In the 20th century, about 500 million people in the world took English as their first language.

2. English is the common language of Canada, Dominica, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Micronesia (Federated States of), Ireland (together with Irish), Liberia (together with African languages) and South Africa. The population as a second language (that is, not the mother tongue, but the language of the host country) is about 654.38 billion.

3. English is the official language of the following countries and regions, but it is not the local language and common language: Fiji, Ghana, Gambia, India, Kiribati, Lesotho, Kenya and Namibia;

Nigeria, Malta, Marshall Islands, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Botswana, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Extended data

English grammar is based on Germanic etymology. Although some scholars in18th century and19th century tried to apply French and ancient Latin grammar to English, they failed.

Compared with all other Indo-European languages, English has less complicated inflections and almost lost all the yin-yang changes. Basically, apart from personal pronouns, English has lost the distinction between sex and case, and it emphasizes the relatively fixed order of words, which means that English is developing towards analytical language.

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