English

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Indo-European language West Germanic language natural language

English is a widely spoken West Germanic language that serves as a global lingua franca in education, business, science, and international communication.

Aliases (13)

English language ×35
English (de facto) ×2
African Englishes ×1
Anglophone world ×1
Australian English ×1
British English ×1
Canadian English ×1
Early Modern English ×1
English in Kenya ×1
Germanic languages ×1
Nigerian English ×1
Old English ×1
Standard English ×1

Statements (62)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Indo-European language → West Germanic language → natural language →
developedFrom	Anglo-Frisian dialects → Old English →
hasAncestor	Early Modern English → Middle English → Old English →
hasApproximateNativeSpeakers	over 350 million →
hasApproximateTotalSpeakers	over 1.4 billion →
hasBasicWordOrder	SVO →
hasISO6391Code	en →
hasISO6392Code	eng →
hasMajorDialectGroup	African Englishes → Australasian English → British Isles English → North American English → South Asian Englishes →
hasMajorVariety	American English → Australian English → British English → Canadian English → Indian English → Irish English → New Zealand English → Nigerian English → South African English →
hasMorphologicalType	analytic language →
hasPhonologicalFeature	stress-timed rhythm →
hasStandardForm	Standard English →
hasStandardizationBody	no single official regulatory body →
hasStatus	global lingua franca →
hasWritingSystem	Latin alphabet →
influencedBy	French → Greek → Latin → Norse languages →
officialOrDeFactoOfficialLanguageOf	Australia → Canada → India → Ireland → New Zealand → Nigeria → Pakistan → Philippines → Singapore → South Africa → United Kingdom → United States →
partOf	Indo-European language family →
primaryLanguageOf	Anglophone world →
subclassOf	Germanic languages →
taughtAsForeignLanguageIn	most countries worldwide →
usedAsSecondLanguageIn	many countries worldwide →
usedInDomain	aviation → diplomacy → higher education → international business → maritime communication → popular culture → science → technology →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
2026 Winter Olympics → Ajax → Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development → Albuquerque → Allied Joint Force Command Norfolk → Arctic Council → Argyll and Bute → Aurora, Ontario → Belmopan → Board of Governors (Asian Development Bank) → Borno State → Bulawayo City Council → Cadiz, Ohio → California State Legislature → Central Coast Council → Central District → Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservation → Columbia County, Oregon → Conference of the States Parties → Cork South-Central → Council of Ministers (Isle of Man) → Dewey → District Court of the Virgin Islands → East Cambridgeshire → Eastern Canada → Elk Grove → Elma, Iowa → Fairfax County Board of Supervisors → Fishguard → Florida Department of Management Services → Friends World Committee for Consultation → GAFI → Games of the XXXIV Olympiad → Gila River Indian Community → Government of Guam → Groupe d’action financière → Guadalcanal Province → Gujarat High Court → Gwynedd → Gwynedd Council → Hagåtña → Hancock, Iowa → Havasupai Indian Reservation → Holiday Hills, Illinois → Hollywood Dam → Honolulu, Hawaii, United States → Houston Dash → IHO Assembly → Ibadan South-West Local Government Area → Indiana → Indiana General Assembly → International Olympic movement → Isabel Segunda → Kahnawà:ke → Kahoʻolawe → Kaw City, Oklahoma → KwaZulu-Natal → Leelanau County → Liberal Party of Canada → Limpopo → Madison County Board of County Commissioners → Mano River Union → Manuʻa District → Maritime Canada → Meghalaya → Metlakatla, British Columbia → Ministry of Home Affairs of Bermuda → Ministry of Transport of Bermuda → Monaco Yacht Show → Monument Valley (Arizona portion) → Morongo Band of Mission Indians → Mpumalanga → NATO Special Operations Headquarters → Nain → Namdrik Atoll → Nassau → National Park of American Samoa → Nevis Island Administration → New Ashford → New Zealand Parliament → Newtonbrook, Ontario, Canada → Nicobar district → North Island → Oceania → Old Montreal → Ontario International Airport Authority → Oregon State Senate → Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe → Pasadena Transit → Pasig → Peach County → Peleliu → Pembrokeshire → Pendleton, New York → Qunu → Red River County, Texas → Regional Municipality of Peel → Rio Group → Rochford District → Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation → Scarborough → Selma City Council → Senate of Pakistan → Shillong → Shire of Augusta-Margaret River → Shropshire → Sierra County, New Mexico → Skyrail Rainforest Cableway → South Lanarkshire → South Pacific Commission → St. John’s → Stillwater, New York → Supai, Arizona → Superior Court of California, County of Alameda → Swan, Iowa → TLCAN → Tamworth Regional Council area → Tour of Oman → Trawsfynydd → Trellech United → UNESCO Creative Cities Network → UfM Secretariat → Ulster → United Cities and Local Governments → United Nations → United Nations Economic and Social Council → United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees → United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia → United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama → United States Senate ("English (de facto)") → Utah → Ute Mountain Ute Reservation → WIPO General Assembly → Waikato Region → Wainwright → Wake Forest Parks, Recreation & Cultural Resources Department → Welland → West Wales → Western Pacific Region → Westminster City Council → Wilmington → World Anti-Doping Agency → World Meteorological Congress → Yavapai-Apache Nation → Zanzibar → judicial branch of the Isle of Man →	hasOfficialLanguage
"Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" → "Day of Infamy" speech → "Don't Panic" (Hitchhiker's Guide slogan) → "I'll Be Missing You" → "The Lover in Me" → "This We'll Defend" → "What can Brown do for you?" → 10 Cloverfield Lane → 1960 United States census → 1967 Basement Tapes recordings → 1967 Stockholm Act of the Lisbon Agreement → 1974 Bob Dylan and The Band Tour → 1st (United Kingdom) Division → 1st Battalion, 1st Marines → 1st Commando Regiment → 2006 New York International Auto Show → 2016 Winter Youth Olympics → 2017 Motor Trend Truck of the Year → 22nd Judicial Circuit of Illinois → 28th Infantry Division → 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment → 40 Recommendations → 5.0 → 5th congressional district of Florida → 6 Underground → 9 to 5 → @Senators → A Bird came down the Walk → A Christian Directory → A Designer’s Art → A Discourse of Conscience → A Display of Arminianism → A Failure of Intelligence → A Fish Called Wanda → A Fragment on Government → A Girl Like Me → A Golden Chain → A Hard Day's Night → A Journal of the Plague Year → A Journey Through Texas → A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853–4 → A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States → A Lesson in Leavin' → A Life on the Ocean Wave → A Monster Calls → A Moon for the Misbegotten (stage) → A Nation in Making → A Private Heaven → A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence → A River Ain’t Too Much to Love → A Theory of Human Motivation → A Theory of Justice → A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf → A Treatise of the Vocations or Callings of Men → A View to a Kill → AAPT → AAPT Summer Meeting → AAPT Winter Meeting → ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries → ACM International Conference on Web Accessibility → ACM International Conference on Web Engineering → ACM International Conference on Web Media → ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining → ACM International Conference on Web-Based Education → ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award → ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award → ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering → ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing → ACM conferences → ACS Central Science → ACS National Awards in Chemistry → AGFD → AHL Atlantic Division → AMA House of Delegates → ARIN → ARITC → ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize → ATLAS → ATLiens → Abe Sapien → Abergavenny → Academy Awards rules → Academy Board of Governors → Acts_of_Parliament_of_Belize → Adriaan van Wijngaarden → Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre → Afro-Bahamians → Afro-Bonairians → After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405 → Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade → Agreement on Trade‑Related Investment Measures → Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures → Air Force Ones → Airborne Warfare → Alabama Splash Adventure → Aldergrove → Alexander the Fierce → Alfred Eisenstaedt → All Summer Long →	language
ACC-18 → Alberto Isidori → Anglosphere → Aua → Bahrain Bourse → Bequia → Big Five → Brainstorm → Build Series → C-TRAN → CAF → Cartwright → Chennai English → Chikanga → Claude → Cliad → Commonwealth Electoral Network → Cump → Dangamvura → Division of Professional Relations → Enlightenment encyclopedism → GLC → Go! → Grok → Harrold → Hay copy → International Bartenders Association → International Labour Conference → Isla de San Juan → Jaluit Atoll → Jura → Kibondo → La Sarraz Congress → MCV → Maloelap Atoll → Maui → Milepost Sign → Murambi → North Cotabato → Northern Nigeria → Nuʻuuli → Onotoa → PRTC → Praise Be to You → Province II → Republic of Letters → Rockaway Landing → Rowlandsfield → SAFTA → Sadler → Sangamon Mass Transit District → Superior Court of Guam → VKO → WCON → Winburg, Orange Free State → World Forum, The Hague → Wotje Atoll →	hasLanguage
Amharic → Amánung Kapampángan → Bikol language ("English language") → Breton → Burushaski → Cantonese → Carolinian → Chamorro → Hausa → Hungarian language → Ilonggo → Indonesian → Inupiaq → Japanese → Kapampangan language ("English language") → Kiribati language ("English language") → Kuna language ("English language") → Modern Irish → Narragansett language ("English language") → Nauruan → Navajo language → Pangasinan language ("English language") → Pima → Saipan Carolinian → Scottish Gaelic → Sinhala → Washo language → Yapese → Yugtun →	hasLoanwordsFrom
Afrikaans → Cypriot Greek ("English language") → Cypriot Turkish → Fiji Hindi → Fijian languages ("English language") → Louisiana French → Luganda → Nigerian Pidgin → Seychellois Creole → Sranan Tongo ("English language") → Sudanese Arabic ("English language") → Yapese →	influencedBy
Gregory → Herbert → Isidore ("English language") → Liam → Oskar → Patrice → Perry → Rebekah → Roxane → Thomas → Vivian Chan →	hasLanguageOfUse
Barry → Beal → Bowen → Darlington → Jackson → Jewett → Killian → Marks → Quinn → William Rogers →	hasLanguageOfOrigin
Assamese → Dutch → Jèrriais → Korean → Magahi → Pennsylvania German → Shona → Wolof →	hasLexicalInfluenceFrom
Antillean Creole → Cameroonian Pidgin English → Krio language ("English language") → Labrador Inuttitut → Louisiana Creole → Papiamento →	hasInfluenceFrom
Abacuk Pricket → Edward Winslow → John Carver → Robert Barker → Sidney Smith →	ethnicGroup
Hawaiian → Nauruan → Palauan → Seychellois Creole →	coOfficialWith
Greater Antilles → Island of Montreal → Mumbai Suburban district → North Africa →	hasMajorLanguage
English ("British English") → English ("Australian English") → English ("Canadian English") → English ("Nigerian English") →	hasMajorVariety
Fagatogo → Mexican diaspora → Rossiya Airlines → Utulei →	hasSecondaryLanguage
Day → Nutuk → One Hundred Years of Solitude → Sugar Street →	hasTranslation
APEC Policy Support Unit → First Committee (Legal and Constitutional Questions) → IHO Council → OSCE Permanent Council →	hasWorkingLanguage
Barbara → David → Denis → Michael →	isUsedInLanguage
Central Africa → Cree → Inuit →	colonialLanguage
ABC programming language → CWEB → Nexus →	documentationLanguage
Aloysia → Cynthia → Pier →	hasLanguageUsage
Chinook Jargon → Neo-Solomonic → Trinidadian Creole English →	hasLexifierLanguage
National Capital Territory of Delhi → West Bengal →	additionalOfficialLanguage
Proto-Germanic → Proto-West Germanic →	ancestorOf
Llanito → Pennsylvania German →	coexistsWith
Penang → Sabah →	commonLanguage
Colonial America → English-speaking Canada →	dominantLanguage
English ("Old English") → English ("Early Modern English") →	hasAncestor
Schwartzkopffstraße → Terminal F →	hasLanguageOfSignage
Clifton ("English language") → Ella ("English language") →	hasOrigin
Belizean Creole → Trinidadian Creole English →	hasVocabularySource
Leon ("English language") → Peter ("English language") →	isUsedIn
Puducherry (parts) →	administrativeLanguage
Great Vowel Shift (early phase) ("English language") →	affects
Vanuatu languages →	areInfluencedBy
Coca-Cola Zero Sugar →	brandLanguage
Brian Griffin →	canSpeak
German →	closelyRelatedTo
Frisian languages ("English language") →	closestLivingRelativeOf
Afro-Bahamians →	colonialLanguageImposed
RAuxAF →	commandLanguage
St. John Valley →	commonLanguages
Paramaribo →	commonLanguagesSpoken
Iona →	currentPrimaryLanguage
High German consonant shift →	distinguishesFrom
English-speaking Canada →	dominantBusinessLanguage
Lowlands →	dominantLanguageInModernEra
Margarita →	equivalentFormLanguage
Crystal →	etymologyLanguage
Bertie →	givenNameForLanguage
Spanish →	hasCommonLoanwordsFrom
Miskito →	hasContactLanguage
FVEY →	hasCoreLanguage
Proto-Indo-European →	hasDescendant
School of Arts and Humanities, University of Cambridge →	hasDiscipline
Dyfed →	hasHistoricLanguage
Mauritian Creole →	hasInfluenceFromLanguage
South Uist →	hasLanguageCommunity
Nansen Sound →	hasLanguageName
Capel Nazareth →	hasLanguageOfLocalCommunity
May Field →	hasLanguageOfName
AeroGaviota →	hasLanguageOfOperation
Columbus Day Parade →	hasLanguagePresence
Bluemull Sound →	hasLanguageRegion
Urdu →	hasLexicalBorrowingFrom
Frisian languages ("English language") →	hasLexicalSimilarityWith
Chinook Jargon →	hasLexicalSourceLanguage
Palauan →	hasLinguisticInfluenceFrom
Viti Levu →	hasMainLanguage
Malayo-Polynesian languages →	hasMajorContactLanguage
English ("African Englishes") →	hasMajorDialectGroup
Third Creek →	hasNameLanguage
Nama →	hasNeighboringContactLanguages
Minnesota →	hasOfficialLanguageStatus
T-MEC →	hasOfficialLanguageVersion
Anglosphere →	hasPrimaryLanguage
Embassy of Myanmar in Washington, D.C. →	hasPrimaryLanguageOfCommunication
Virgin Islands Creole English →	hasPrimaryLexifier
Coventrian →	hasRelatedEthnonym
Maltese →	hasSignificantInfluenceFrom
English ("Standard English") →	hasStandardForm
Haitian Creole →	hasSubstrateInfluenceFrom
Jamaican Patois →	hasSuperstrate
Voodoo Macbeth →	hasTitleLanguage
Pijin →	hasVocabularyFrom
Pima ("English language") →	historicalContactWith
Gallo-Romance languages ("English language") →	influenced
Normans ("English language") →	influencedLanguage
Philippine Medal of Valor →	inscriptionLanguage