English Language

English is one of the most spoken languages in the world. More than 500 million people speak English. It is the language natively spoken by most people in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. It is also an official languageFile:Interrogation.svg of India, the Philippines, Singapore, and many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including South Africa although not in the whole of United States, United Kingdom and Australia.

Map of peoples speaking English in the world. Dark blue= English is the official language or the language natively spoken by most people; light blue= English is an official language (possibly alongside other ones) but is not natively spoken by most people.

The English alphabet uses 26 letters of the Latin alphabet.