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			[[File:Flag of England.svg\|thumb\|The [[Flag of England]], where the English language originates]]

	The '''English language''' is a [[West Germanic languages\|West Germanic language]] which emerged during the [[Early Middle Ages]] in what is today [[England]] and southeastern [[Scotland]]. It gets its name from the [[Angles (tribe)\|Angles]], an early [[Germanic peoples\|Germanic tribe]] believed to have inhabited the [[Angeln]] peninsula in [[Southern Schleswig]]. The language was first used by the [[Anglo-Saxons]], an amalgamation of various Germanic peoples who settled in [[Great Britain]] [[Province of Britain (43–410)\|during]] and [[End of Roman rule in Britain\|after the Roman conquest]].<ref>{{Citation\|author=Rosemary Salomone\|year=2022\|title=The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language\|title-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gNREAAAQBAJ&dq=\|chapter=The English Divide\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gNREAAAQBAJ&dq=%22its+global+spread+began+with+the+british+empire,+which+at+its+height%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q=%22its%20global%20spread%20began%20with%20the%20british%20empire%2C%20which%20at%20its%20height%22&f=false\|section=Lingua Franca Old and New\|page=6\|city=Oxford\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|isbn=978-0-19-062561-0\|doi=10.1093/oso/9780190625610.001.0001}}</ref> The earliest form of English was [[Old English]], which was spoken from the mid-5th century until the 12th century, when [[Norman Conquest\|England was invaded by the Normans]].		The '''English language''' is a [[West Germanic languages\|West Germanic language]] which emerged during the [[Early Middle Ages]] in what is today [[England]] and southeastern [[Scotland]]. It gets its name from the [[Angles (tribe)\|Angles]], an early [[Germanic peoples\|Germanic tribe]] believed to have inhabited the [[Angeln]] peninsula in [[Southern Schleswig]]. The language was first used by the [[Anglo-Saxons]], an amalgamation of various Germanic peoples who settled in [[Great Britain]] [[Province of Britain (43–410)\|during]] and [[End of Roman rule in Britain\|after the Roman conquest]].<ref>{{Citation\|author=Rosemary Salomone\|year=2022\|title=The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language\|title-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gNREAAAQBAJ&dq=\|chapter=The English Divide\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gNREAAAQBAJ&dq=%22its+global+spread+began+with+the+british+empire,+which+at+its+height%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q=%22its%20global%20spread%20began%20with%20the%20british%20empire%2C%20which%20at%20its%20height%22&f=false\|section=Lingua Franca Old and New\|page=6\|city=Oxford\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|isbn=978-0-19-062561-0\|doi=10.1093/oso/9780190625610.001.0001}}</ref> The earliest form of English was [[Old English]], which was spoken from the mid-5th century until the 12th century, when [[Norman Conquest\|England was invaded by the Normans]].

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	The '''English language''' is a West Germanic language that began in [[Britain]]. Due to european [[imperialism]], English has become the global lingua franca, and is the most common second language learned. English is the third most spoken native language, after [[Mandarin]] and [[Spanish]]<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Adam Zeidan\|newspaper=Encyclopedia Britannica\|title=Languages by Number of Native Speakers\|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/languages-by-number-of-native-speakers-2228882\|retrieved=2025-08-21}}~~</ref>~~		{{Stub}}

	English is ~~named after~~ the Angles, an early [[~~Germany~~\|Germanic]] ~~nation that later migrated~~ to Britain ~~shortly~~ after the Roman ~~Empire stopped their occupation of Germany~~.<ref>{{Citation\|author=Rosemary Salomone\|year=2022\|title=The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language\|title-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gNREAAAQBAJ&dq=\|chapter=The English Divide\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gNREAAAQBAJ&dq=%22its+global+spread+began+with+the+british+empire,+which+at+its+height%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q=%22its%20global%20spread%20began%20with%20the%20british%20empire%2C%20which%20at%20its%20height%22&f=false\|section=Lingua Franca Old and New\|page=6\|city=Oxford\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|isbn=978-0-19-062561-0\|doi=10.1093/oso/9780190625610.001.0001}}</ref>		The '''English language''' is a [[West Germanic languages\|West Germanic language]] which emerged during the [[Early Middle Ages]] in what is today [[England]] and southeastern [[Scotland]]. It gets its name from the [[Angles (tribe)\|Angles]], an early [[Germanic peoples\|Germanic tribe]] believed to have inhabited the [[Angeln]] peninsula in [[Southern Schleswig]]. The language was first used by the [[Anglo-Saxons]], an amalgamation of various Germanic peoples who settled in [[Great Britain]] [[Province of Britain (43–410)\|during]] and [[End of Roman rule in Britain\|after the Roman conquest]].<ref>{{Citation\|author=Rosemary Salomone\|year=2022\|title=The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language\|title-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gNREAAAQBAJ&dq=\|chapter=The English Divide\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gNREAAAQBAJ&dq=%22its+global+spread+began+with+the+british+empire,+which+at+its+height%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q=%22its%20global%20spread%20began%20with%20the%20british%20empire%2C%20which%20at%20its%20height%22&f=false\|section=Lingua Franca Old and New\|page=6\|city=Oxford\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|isbn=978-0-19-062561-0\|doi=10.1093/oso/9780190625610.001.0001}}</ref> The earliest form of English was [[Old English]], which was spoken from the mid-5th century until the 12th century, when [[Norman Conquest\|England was invaded by the Normans]].

			Following the invasion, [[Anglo-Norman language\|Anglo-Norman]] and [[Law French]] became the prevailing languages of the ruling class, although English persisted among the general population. [[Middle English]], which superseded Old English, was heavily influenced by the conquest, losing its [[Grammatical case\|grammatical casing]] and borrowing a great deal of vocabulary which was [[Latin]], French, and Scandinavian in origin. The [[Great Vowel Shift]] along with the [[Linguistic standardisation\|standardisation]] of English gave way to [[Modern English]] in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries.

			Today, due to the historically unrivalled [[Imperialism\|imperialist]] hegemony of [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland\|Britain]] and the [[United States of America\|United States]], English is the global [[lingua franca]]. It is the most commonly-learnt [[second language]] in the world as well as the third most [[First language\|natively-spoken language]] after [[Mandarin]] and [[Spanish language\|Spanish]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Adam Zeidan\|newspaper=Encyclopedia Britannica\|title=Languages by Number of Native Speakers\|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/languages-by-number-of-native-speakers-2228882\|retrieved=2025-08-21}}</ref> English is an [[official language]] in [[English-speaking language\|over 50 countries]] as well as many important [[International organisation\|international organisations]] such as the [[United Nations]], the [[European Union]], [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization\|NATO]], the [[International Criminal Court]], and [[Interpol]].

	== Linguistic oddities ==		== Linguistic oddities ==

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	English is named after the Angles, an early [[Germany\|Germanic]] nation that later migrated to Britain shortly after the Roman Empire stopped their occupation of Germany.<ref>{{Citation\|author=Rosemary Salomone\|year=2022\|title=The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language\|title-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gNREAAAQBAJ&dq=\|chapter=The English Divide\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gNREAAAQBAJ&dq=%22its+global+spread+began+with+the+british+empire,+which+at+its+height%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q=%22its%20global%20spread%20began%20with%20the%20british%20empire%2C%20which%20at%20its%20height%22&f=false\|section=Lingua Franca Old and New\|page=6\|city=Oxford\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|isbn=978-0-19-062561-0\|doi=10.1093/oso/9780190625610.001.0001}}</ref>		English is named after the Angles, an early [[Germany\|Germanic]] nation that later migrated to Britain shortly after the Roman Empire stopped their occupation of Germany.<ref>{{Citation\|author=Rosemary Salomone\|year=2022\|title=The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language\|title-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gNREAAAQBAJ&dq=\|chapter=The English Divide\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gNREAAAQBAJ&dq=%22its+global+spread+began+with+the+british+empire,+which+at+its+height%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q=%22its%20global%20spread%20began%20with%20the%20british%20empire%2C%20which%20at%20its%20height%22&f=false\|section=Lingua Franca Old and New\|page=6\|city=Oxford\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|isbn=978-0-19-062561-0\|doi=10.1093/oso/9780190625610.001.0001}}</ref>

	== ~~linguistic~~ oddities ==		== Linguistic oddities ==
	English as a language contains many linguistic anomalies, most famously the lack of a phonetic [[writing system]], due to the attempt to classify all the sounds in English using the [[Latin language\|Latin]] alphabet, which was notably developed for Latin, and not English. Further anomalies include hold-over spelling from old English and other, older formations, such as in the word "knight". The [[linguistic standardization]] through the [[printing press]] was especially crude in England, with various regional spelling which reflected local pronunciation being taken as standard spellings, despite the lack of phonetic accuracy. Further oddities were introduced by 17th century grammarians' attempts to create a standard English grammar, for instance the maintaining of the singular and plural "you" but the abandoning of the singular "they" (which is still used and was still used due to the lack of any other third person plural pronoun).		English as a language contains many linguistic anomalies, most famously the lack of a phonetic [[writing system]], due to the attempt to classify all the sounds in English using the [[Latin language\|Latin]] alphabet, which was notably developed for Latin, and not English. Further anomalies include hold-over spelling from old English and other, older formations, such as in the word "knight". The [[linguistic standardization]] through the [[printing press]] was especially crude in England, with various regional spelling which reflected local pronunciation being taken as standard spellings, despite the lack of phonetic accuracy. Further oddities were introduced by 17th century grammarians' attempts to create a standard English grammar, for instance the maintaining of the singular and plural "you" but the abandoning of the singular "they" (which is still used and was still used due to the lack of any other third person plural pronoun).

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 == linguistic oddities ==
 English as a language contains many linguistic anomalies, most famously the lack of a phonetic [[writing system]], due to the attempt to classify all the sounds in English using the [[Latin language|Latin]] alphabet, which was notably developed for Latin, and not English. Further anomalies include hold-over spelling from old English and other, older formations, such as in the word "knight". The [[linguistic standardization]] through the [[printing press]] was especially crude in England, with various regional spelling which reflected local pronunciation being taken as standard spellings, despite the lack of phonetic accuracy. Further oddities were introduced by 17th century grammarians' attempts to create a standard English grammar, for instance the maintaining of the singular and plural "you" but the abandoning of the singular "they" (which is still used and was still used due to the lack of any other third person plural pronoun).
 == References ==
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	English is named after the Angles, an early [[Germany\|Germanic]] nation that later migrated to Britain shortly after the Roman Empire stopped their occupation of Germany.<ref>{{Citation\|author=Rosemary Salomone\|year=2022\|title=The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language\|title-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gNREAAAQBAJ&dq=\|chapter=The English Divide\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gNREAAAQBAJ&dq=%22its+global+spread+began+with+the+british+empire,+which+at+its+height%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q=%22its%20global%20spread%20began%20with%20the%20british%20empire%2C%20which%20at%20its%20height%22&f=false\|section=Lingua Franca Old and New\|page=6\|city=Oxford\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|isbn=978-0-19-062561-0\|doi=10.1093/oso/9780190625610.001.0001}}</ref>		English is named after the Angles, an early [[Germany\|Germanic]] nation that later migrated to Britain shortly after the Roman Empire stopped their occupation of Germany.<ref>{{Citation\|author=Rosemary Salomone\|year=2022\|title=The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language\|title-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gNREAAAQBAJ&dq=\|chapter=The English Divide\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gNREAAAQBAJ&dq=%22its+global+spread+began+with+the+british+empire,+which+at+its+height%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q=%22its%20global%20spread%20began%20with%20the%20british%20empire%2C%20which%20at%20its%20height%22&f=false\|section=Lingua Franca Old and New\|page=6\|city=Oxford\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|isbn=978-0-19-062561-0\|doi=10.1093/oso/9780190625610.001.0001}}</ref>

			== linguistic oddities ==
			English as a language contains many linguistic anomalies, most famously the lack of a phonetic [[writing system]], due to the attempt to classify all the sounds in English using the [[Latin language\|Latin]] alphabet, which was notably developed for Latin, and not English. Further anomalies include hold-over spelling from old English and other, older formations, such as in the word "knight". The [[linguistic standardization]] through the [[printing press]] was especially crude in England, with various regional spelling which reflected local pronunciation being taken as standard spellings, despite the lack of phonetic accuracy. Further oddities were introduced by 17th century grammarians' attempts to create a standard English grammar, for instance the maintaining of the singular and plural "you" but the abandoning of the singular "they" (which is still used and was still used due to the lack of any other third person plural pronoun).

	== References ==		== References ==
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The '''English language''' is a West Germanic language that began in [[Britain]]. Due to european [[imperialism]], English has become the global lingua franca, and is the most common second language learned. English is the third most spoken native language, after [[Mandarin]] and [[Spanish]]<ref>{{Web citation|author=Adam Zeidan|newspaper=Encyclopedia Britannica|title=Languages by Number of Native Speakers|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/languages-by-number-of-native-speakers-2228882|retrieved=2025-08-21}}</ref>

English is named after the Angles, an early [[Germany|Germanic]] nation that later migrated to Britain shortly after the Roman Empire stopped their occupation of Germany.<ref>{{Citation|author=Rosemary Salomone|year=2022|title=The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language|title-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gNREAAAQBAJ&dq=|chapter=The English Divide|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gNREAAAQBAJ&dq=%22its+global+spread+began+with+the+british+empire,+which+at+its+height%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q=%22its%20global%20spread%20began%20with%20the%20british%20empire%2C%20which%20at%20its%20height%22&f=false|section=Lingua Franca Old and New|page=6|city=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-062561-0|doi=10.1093/oso/9780190625610.001.0001}}</ref>
== References ==
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