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10 Most Spoken Languages in the World
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Saturday, 19 November 2011, 00:23 IST |
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English
English is a member of the West Germanic language family. It originally sprouted from the Anglo-Saxon language (Old English) and borrowed heavily from Latin and French due to the Norman conquest of England. Though it developed in the British Isles, the largest population of English speaker's lives in the United States, with about 309 million speakers.
English is the official language of 53 countries, including Ireland, Canada, South Africa, Jamaica, and New Zealand, and is the commonly spoken language of the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. It also has large speaking populations in several African and is a "subsidiary official language" in India. The number of speakers has been raised to 328 million.
