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10 most spoken languages in the world

1. English (1.452 billion)
2. Mandarin Chinese (1.119 billion) – in China
3. Hindi (602 million)
4. Spanish
5. Standard Arabic – N. Africa,…
6. French – Canada, France, N. Africa)
7. Bengali
8. Russian
9. Portuguese – Brazil, Portugal
10. Urdu

Súdán India
Phillippines
South Súdán
Kenya

Angola Zimbabwe
South Africa
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Where is English spoken?

Countries with a majority of English speakers:

 Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Dominica,
Grenada, Guyana, Ireland, Jamaica, New Zealand, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint
Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kinhdon, the USA

How many speakers of English are there?

 370 million native speakers (1.35 billion English speakers)
 EFL – English as a foreign language
 ESL – English as a second language
 ESOL – English for speakers of other languages

What is the origin of English?

 on of the Indo-European languages (indoevropské jazyky), a West-Germanic language
(západogermánský jazyk)
 descended from the Proto-Germanic language (progermánština)
- > also Dutch, German, Swedish,…

What are the beginnings of English?

 original speakers = the tribes of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes – in the 5th century AD

Why is English the most spoken language?

- British Empire – in the past a lot of places in the world were colonized by British Empire
- American influence