English is an Indo-European language and belongs to the West Germanic group of the Germanic languages. Old English originated from a Germanic tribal and linguistic continuum along the Frisian North Sea coast, … See more

As of 2016 , 400 million people spoke English as their first language, and 1.1 billion spoke it as a secondary language. English is the largest language by number of speakers.… See more

The phonetics and phonology of the English language differ from one dialect to another, usually without interfering with mutual … See more

It is generally stated that English has around 170,000 words, or 220,000 if obsolete words are counted; this estimate is based on the last … See more

Overview of history
The earliest varieties of an English language, collectively known as Old English or "Anglo-Saxon", evolved from a group of North Sea Germanic dialects brought to Britain in the 5th century. Old English dialects … See more

As is typical of an Indo-European language, English follows accusative morphosyntactic alignment. Unlike other Indo-European … See more

Since the ninth century, English has been written in a Latin alphabet (also called Roman alphabet). Earlier… See more