How English Language Spread All Over The World

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How English language spread all over the world By Aqeel Qureshi Predominance of English English is today a global language and its prominence has been proven. Occupying the third world by number of native speakers and first place as a second language, English reigns in business, culture, communication and the Internet. Origins of English English is a Germanic language which is closely related to Frisian, the Netherlands and Low German. In the fifth century, the English invaders following the Angles, Saxons and Jutes from the continent and dominates the British Isles Modern English English literature gradually regained importance, but each region has its own dialect writing. The foundations of modern English the result of merging Norman French and Saxon made from the fourteenth century, when English type required by the London literary genius of the storyteller Geoffrey Chaucer. The advent of printing to 1475 and the development of print media with its share of unifying influences contribute significantly to give the English the form we know today. English today Political power and the successive waves of colonization of the British Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, replaced by political influence, military and economic U.S. since the late nineteenth to the present day have made English geolinguistic all the world's largest (by number of speakers and their dispersal throughout the world). English is spoken by over 400 million users worldwide. 200 million of them live in North America and 60 million in the British Isles. Mother tongue of 15 million people in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, English is the second language of millions of people in India, Pakistan, Srilanka, Bangladesh, Philippines and many other
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