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The English Language
English, the official - or second official language - of over 45 nations, is widely spoken in nearly every corner of the World. With around 700 million people in the world speaking English, it the second most spoken language in the world after Mandarin. But while Mandarin is spoken by a larger population, English today is the most extensively used of the world's languages.
Part of the Indo-European language family, English is considered to be a Germanic language. The word English originates from "Englisc" the language of the Angles, a Germanic tribe who migrated to the British Isles in the 5th Century AD.
English is the language of science and technology, international politics and diplomacy, and the aviation and travel industries worldwide. Importantly, is estimated that over 50 per cent of all business negotiations are carried out in English. And over three-quarters of all the items mailed in the world are addressed and written in English.
The English language has one of the richest in vocabularies in the world, with about half a million words and another 500,000 technical and scientific terms still unlisted.
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