How English language spread all over the world ? Predominance of English
English is today a global language and its prominence has been proven.
Occupying the third world by number of native speakers and first place
as a second language, English reigns in business, culture,
communication and the Internet. Origins of English
English is a Germanic language which is closely related to Frisian, the
Netherlands and Low German. In the fifth century, the English invaders
following the Angles, Saxons and Jutes from the continent and dominates
the British Isles Modern English English literature
gradually regained importance, but each region has its own dialect
writing. The foundations of modern English the result of merging Norman
French and Saxon made from the fourteenth century, when English type
required by the London literary genius of the storyteller Geoffrey
Chaucer. The advent of printing to 1475 and the development of print
media with its share of unifying influences contribute significantly to
give the English the form we know today. English today
Political power and the successive waves of colonization of the British
Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, replaced by
political influence, military and economic U.S. since the late
nineteenth to the present day have made English geolinguistic all the
world's largest (by number of speakers and their dispersal throughout
the world). English is spoken by over 400 million users worldwide. 200
million of them live in North America and 60 million in the British
Isles. Mother tongue of 15 million people in Australia, New Zealand and
South Africa, English is the second language of millions of people in
India, Pakistan, Srilanka, Bangladesh, Philippines and many other
countries. By: Muhammad Aqeel Qureshi Related Articles
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