English
Pronunciation	/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
Region	British Isles (originally) Worldwide
Native speakers	360–400 million  (date missing) L2 speakers: 400 million; as a foreign language: 600–700 million{
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Anglo-Frisian Anglic English
Early forms:	Old English Middle English Early Modern English English
Writing system	Latin script (English alphabet) English Braille, Unified English Braille
Official status
Official language in	67 countries 27 non-sovereign entities Various organisations United Nations European Union Commonwealth of Nations Council of Europe ICC IMF IOC ISO NATO WTO NAFTA OAS OECD OIC OPEC GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development PIF UKUSA Agreement ASEAN ASEAN Economic Community SAARC CARICOM Turkic Council ECO
Language codes
ISO 639-1	en
ISO 639-2	eng
ISO 639-3	eng
Linguasphere	52-ABA
Countries of the world where English is a majority native language     Countries where English is official but not a majority native language
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English is a language that started in Anglo-Saxon England. It is originally from Anglo-Frisian and Old Saxon dialects. English is now a global language. It is used worldwide. There are about 375 million native speakers (people who use it as their first language) in the world.

Frisian is the language closest to English. The vocabulary of English was influenced by other Germanic languages in the early Middle Ages and later by Romance languages, especially French.