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South America 3,000 Yes Gibraltar [2] United Kingdom Europe 33,000 No (Both English and Llanito are spoken on a daily basis as the primary languages) Guam [f] United States Oceania 173,000 Yes (co-official with Chamorro) Hong Kong [g] [2] China: Asia 7,097,600 No (but de jure and de facto co-official with Chinese [40]) Isle of Man [h] United ...
Although 22% of U.S. residents report that they speak a language other than English at home, only 8.4% of these same residents speak English less than "very well". [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Approximately 430 languages are spoken or signed by the population, of which 177 are indigenous to the U.S. or its territories.
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 [1] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [2] 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.
The Arab population of Israel speaks Arabic. Functionally, almost all Arabs in Israel also speak Hebrew. English is widely spoken and understood as a second language by both Arabs and Jews. Officially, road signs must be in Hebrew, Arabic, and a romanized Hebrew transliteration.
English is the largest language by number of speakers. English is spoken by communities on every continent and on islands in all the major oceans. [71] The countries where English is spoken can be grouped into different categories according to how English is used in each country.
The English-speaking world comprises the 88 countries and territories in which English is an official, administrative, or cultural language. In the early 2000s, between one and two billion people spoke English, [1] [2] making it the largest language by number of speakers, the third largest language by number of native speakers and the most widespread language geographically.
Chinese, including Mandarin and Cantonese among other varieties, is the third most-spoken language in the United States, and is mostly spoken within Chinese-American populations and by immigrants or the descendants of immigrants, especially in California and New York. [6]
The following is a list of countries and territories where Chinese is an official language.While those countries or territories that designate any variety of Chinese as an official language, as the term "Chinese" is considered a group of related language varieties rather than a homogeneous language, of which many are not mutually intelligible, in the context of the spoken language such ...