Name used by its speakers (Endonym): English
Native speakers (estimated): 380 million
Total speakers, including second-language (estimated): 1.5 billion
Where it’s spoken: English is an official language in 59 sovereign countries; in the UK, USA, Australia, and New Zealand it is the de facto national language, though not officially recognized. (2025 note: Recent efforts to make it sole official language of the United States will not be recognized by this website.)
Language family: Indo-European, Germanic branch (West Germanic).
Related languages include: Frisian (closest), Dutch, German, and the Scandinavian languages.
This page remains under construction, but in the meantime… The best website we have yet found about the English language is thehistoryofenglish.com — If you want to know more, check them out!