English

The English Language

Family/group: Indo-European (Germanic)
Number of speakers: 400 million ( 1.1 billion including those who use it as 2^nd or 3^rd language)
Where spoken: UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, parts of Asia & Africa plus almost global use as language of commerce, science & technology and popular culture
Script: Roman
English is an official language in 45 countries. It is a descendant of Low German, with liberal portions of Latin, Greek, French and about 150 other languages. As it spreads across the world it takes on a life of its own, leading to new spellings, as in American English, and adding words from local vocabularies.

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_{Nothing is more important
than stopping fascism because fascism will stop us all}