The English language is an Indo-European language in the West Germanic language group. Modern English is widely considered to be the lingua franca...

As of 2020 there are 1.27 billion English speakers around the world. This makes it the most spoken language, ahead of Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billio...

There has been much public and academic debate on whether African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is a dialect of English or its own separate la...

Having emerged from the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoples—Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—who settled in Britain in the 5th century CE, English...

English is not the official language of the United States of America. The country does not have an official language on the federal level. Many sta...