Hello!
say it: “heh-LOH”
English
in its own words: English
- Speakers
- 1.5 billion (estimate)
- Family
- Indo-European – Germanic
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Australia, Bermuda, Brazil, Belize, Canada, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cook Islands, Cuba, Christmas Island, Dominican Republic, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), United Kingdom and 22 more
- Script
- Latin
- Official language
- Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Botswana, British Indian Ocean Territory, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Cayman Islands and 77 more
Fun fact
By common estimates more people speak English as a second language than as a first. It is the main language of international aviation and of the internet.