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The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [70] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [71] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
Over 3.4 billion people (42% of the global population) speak an Indo-European language as a first language—by far the most of any language family. There are about 445 living Indo-European languages, according to an estimate by Ethnologue , of which 313 belong to the Indo-Iranian branch.
European Portuguese Equatorial Guinea: Africa 1,795,834 [21] Brazilian Portuguese East Timor: Asia 1,245,000 [22] East Timorese Portuguese Guinea-Bissau: Africa 1,110,000 [23] Guinean Portuguese Macau: Asia 641,000 [24] Macanese Portuguese Cape Verde: Africa 499,000 [25] Cape Verdean Portuguese Sao Tome and Principe: Africa 212,679 [26] Sao ...
Portuguese (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Romance: 236 million 27 million 264 million Russian: Indo-European: Balto-Slavic: 148 million 108 million 255 million Urdu (excl. Hindi) Indo-European: Indo-Aryan: 70 million 168 million 238 million Indonesian (excl. other Malay) Austronesian: Malayo-Polynesian: 44 million 155 million 199 ...
Official language A language designated as having a unique legal status in the state: typically, the language used in a nation's legislative bodies, and often, official government business.
The mixed Indian-Portuguese and Indian converts began to speak English in place of the Portuguese and some of them also anglicised their names. They are, now, part of the East Indian community of Bombay. Korlai. About 900 monolingual people currently speak Creole Portuguese in Korlai called Korlai Indo-Portuguese.
The following texts are translations of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the languages of Indonesia. English; All people are born free and have the same dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should associate with each other in a spirit of brotherhood. Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia)
In Kampung Tugu (Koja, North Jakarta) Some of the people there are descendants of the Portuguese or of the Goese, [13] while some are descendants of slaves who are able to speak Portuguese, and were brought to Batavia (now Jakarta) as prisoners of war after the Dutch VOC conquered Malacca in 1641, those who are the descendants of the Portuguese ...