English
West Germanic language
Facts
39 properties- Instance of
- natural language, modern language, language, macrolanguage, standard language, literary language, human language
- Country
- American Samoa, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, The Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, Botswana, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Dominica, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Fiji, The Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Grenada, United States, Guernsey, Guyana, India, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Jamaica, Jersey, Kenya, Kiribati, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Federated States of Micronesia, Montserrat, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Nigeria, Niue, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint-Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Eswatini, Tanzania, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, United States Virgin Islands, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Indonesia[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
- Subclass of
- Anglic, Anglo-Frisian
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 51.000°, 0.000°
- Short name
- английский, англійська, инглизсә, англійская, ingiliscə, инглисӣ, англисӣ, английски, ағылшынша, англисаг, إنجليزي, Inglis tili, анґліцькый, ингилис, инглис, ангельская, англ., إنقليزي, إنقليزية, الإنقليزية
- Described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Encyclopedic Lexicon, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1
- Entry in abbreviations table
- англ., अं
- Ethnologue language status
- 0 International
- Female form of label
- la langue anglaise
- Has characteristic
- agreement
- Has grammatical case
- genitive case, nominative case, oblique case
- Has grammatical mood
- indicative, subjunctive, interrogative
- Has grammatical person
- first-person singular, second-person singular, third-person masculine singular, third-person feminine singular, third-person neuter singular, first-person plural, second-person plural, third-person plural
- Has part(s)
- received pronunciation, American English, Australian English, Indian English, Canadian English, British English, Scottish English, Hiberno-English, Welsh English, Quebec English, Caribbean English, African American Vernacular English, European English, South African English, Pakistani English, Nigerian English, New Zealand English, Jamaican English, Belizean English, Hong Kong English
- Has phoneme
- voiced bilabial nasal, voiceless bilabial plosive, voiced bilabial plosive, voiceless labiodental fricative, voiced labiodental fricative, voiceless dental fricative, voiced dental fricative, voiced alveolar nasal, voiceless alveolar stop, voiceless alveolar fricative, voiced alveolar fricative, voiced alveolar lateral approximant, voiceless palato-alveolar affricate, voiced palato-alveolar affricate, voiceless palato‐alveolar fricative, voiced palato‐alveolar sibilant, voiced alveolar approximant, voiced palatal approximant, voiced velar nasal, voiceless velar stop, voiceless glottal fricative, voiced labio-velar approximant, close front unrounded vowel, near-close near-front unrounded vowel, mid front unrounded vowel, open-mid front unrounded vowel, near-open front unrounded vowel, open back unrounded vowel, open back rounded vowel, open-mid back rounded vowel, close-mid back rounded vowel, close back rounded vowel, near-close near-back rounded vowel, near-open central unrounded vowel, schwa
- Has tense
- simple present, present continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous, simple past, past continuous, past perfect, continuous pluperfect, future perfect, simple future, future perfect continuous, future continuous
- History of topic
- history of English
- IPA transcription
- ˈeɪŋɡlɪʃ, ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ
- Indigenous to
- England
- Influenced by
- French, Vulgar Latin, Germanic languages, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, Portuguese, Sanskrit, Russian, Māori, Hindi, Hebrew, Persian, Malay, Urdu, Irish, Yiddish, Chinese, Turkish, languages of Africa
- Linguistic typology
- subject–verb–object, nominative–accusative language, stress-timed language, place–manner–time, fusional language, adjective-noun
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- Maintained by WikiProject
- Wiktionary:About English
- Male form of label
- l'anglais
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C82847
- Named after
- England
- Native label
- English
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 603.2M (339.4M–1.1B, n=5)
- On focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- Opposite of
- non-English
- Permanent duplicated item
- Wikidata item, English, Wikidata item
- PyPI trove classifier
- Natural Language :: English
- Signed form
- manually coded English
- Studied by
- English studies
- Topic has template
- Template:En icon, Шаблон:Английский язык
- Uses capitalization for
- calendar month, religion, day of the week, demonym, language, proper noun, religious denomination, glottonym
- Writing system
- English alphabet, Unified English Braille, Deseret alphabet, Shavian alphabet
🏷️ Also known as
en English
en English (language)
en English language
ar الإنجليزية
ar االلغة لإنكليزية
ar الإنكليزية - اللغة
ar االلغة الإنكليزية
ar اللغة الإنقليزية
ar لغة إنقليزية
ar الإنقليزية
ar الإنگليزية اللغة العالمية
ar إنقليزية
ar الإنكليزية (اللغة)
cs anglicky
cs angličtina
cs angl.
cs anglický jazyk
da engelsk
de engl.
de englische Sprache
🔖 Identifiers · 126
- Library of Congress Authorities ID
- sh85043413
- GND ID
- 4014777-0
- OpenAlex ID
- C3017914614, C2987496018
- ABC News topic ID
- english
- ABS ASCL 2011 code
- 1201, 12
- ANZSRC 2008 FoR ID
- 200302
- ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID
- 470307
- ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID
- 294909982
- Arab Encyclopedia concept ID
- 14650
- Arabic Ontology lexical concept ID
- 151037608
- Archive of Our Own tag
- English
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
- 300388277
Show all 126 identifiers +114
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Online
- anglu-kalba
- Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
- scot/305
- Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID
- 2912
- BBC Things ID
- 03c97771-99ab-478c-b4a8-a0b5c9b07244
- BNCF Thesaurus ID
- 6546
- BabelNet ID
- 00030862n
- Babelio subject ID
- 77540
- Baidu Tieba name
- 英语
- Bashenc.online ID
- 84474
- Basisklassifikation
- 18.04
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
- 119308987
- Concise Literary Encyclopedia ID
- 1-2171
- Deaf Movie Database language ID
- english
- Dewey Decimal Classification
- 420
- Digital Scriptorium Catalog item ID
- February
- EU Knowledge Graph item ID
- Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon
- Encyclopaedia Beliana ID
- anglicky-jazyk
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)
- 44BEUi
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)
- 27849
- Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID
- 44084
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- topic/English-language
- Encyclopædia Universalis ID
- anglais-art-et-culture-langue
- Eska.pl topic ID
- tg-jGob-AzBg-ZMjk
- Ethnologue.com language code
- eng
- Exact match
- publications.europa.eu, afbo.info
- FAST ID
- 910920
- FactGrid item ID
- The Independent
- Fandom article ID
- ru.harrypotter:Английский_язык, klingon:DIvI'_Hol, ru.science:Английский_язык
- France 24 topic ID (French)
- anglais
- Freebase ID
- /m/02h40lc
- GOST 7.75–97 code
- анг 045
- GitHub topic
- english-language
- Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online ID
- English Language
- Glottolog code
- stan1293
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- angles
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0262155
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- engelsk
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
- 1821310
- Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID
- Англійська_мова
- Gujarati Vishwakosh entry
- અંગ્રેજી-ભાષા
- HDS ID
- 011198
- Harper's tag
- english-language
- IAB code
- 1068
- IETF language tag
- en
- ISBN identifier group
- 978-0, 978-1
- ISO 639-1 code
- en
- ISO 639-2 code
- eng
- ISO 639-3 code
- eng
- ISOCAT ID
- 657
- IdRef ID
- 027219232
- Interlingual Index ID
- i73104
- J-GLOBAL ID
- 200906039423903031
- J9U entity ID
- 987007545879205171
- Joconde inscription ID
- T520-156
- KBpedia ID
- EnglishLanguage
- Klexikon article ID
- Englische_Sprache
- Krugosvet article (archived)
- gumanitarnye_nauki/lingvistika/ANGLISKI_YAZIK.html
- Kunstenpunt Knowledge Graph ID
- Wikidata item
- LC and MARC vocabularies ID
- languages/eng, iso639-1/en, iso639-2/eng
- Larousse ID
- divers/anglais/21118
- Lex ID
- engelsk
- Libris-URI
- jgvxwdb246f6r4z
- Lille norske leksikon ID
- engelsk
- Lingua Libre ID
- Scotland
- Linguasphere code
- 52-ABA
- LyricsTranslate ID
- language/english
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
- 2987496018
- Museum-digital tag ID
- 48046
- NDL Authority ID
- 00561788
- NE.se ID
- engelska
- NL CR AUT ID
- ph114056
- Namuwiki ID
- 영어
- National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
- term/cabc8d43-3f4b-49df-8871-bcf54e416d67
- National Library of Israel ID (old)
- 000678210
- National Library of Korea ID
- KSH1998010150
- National Library of Latvia ID
- 000048547
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID
- XX528236
- New York Times topic ID
- subject/english-language
- NicoNicoPedia word article ID
- 英語
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
- 5685
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
- 3869480
- Open Language Archives Community language code
- eng
- Open Library subject ID
- english_language
- PACTOLS thesaurus ID
- pcrtX0PLu48te5
- POSIX locale identifier
- en
- PSH ID
- 6754
- Personality Database profile ID
- 179480
- Pixiv Encyclopedia ID
- 英語
- Quora topic ID
- English-language, English-Language-as-Second-Language
- Related category
- Category:English pronunciation, Category:English-language animated films
- SVKKL authority ID
- h0001551-anglictina
- ScienceDirect topic ID
- social-sciences/english-language, biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/english-language, medicine-and-dentistry/english-language
- Stack Exchange site URL
- english.stackexchange.com
- Stack Exchange tag
- linguistics.stackexchange.com, tex.stackexchange.com
- Subreddit
- ENGLISH
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal
- Portal:English
- Topic's main category
- Category:English language
- UK Archival Thesaurus ID
- f3/mt335/1703/2760/2058
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID
- 9946
- UMLS CUI
- CL386646
- UN Thesaurus ID
- 1002051
- UNESCO Thesaurus ID
- concept2371
- Universal Decimal Classification
- 811.111
- Vikidia article ID
- en:English, it:Lingua_inglese, es:Idioma_inglés, eu:Ingeles_hizkuntza, ca:Anglès, fr:Anglais, ru:Английский_язык
- WALS lect code
- eng
- WikiKids ID
- Engels
- Wikidata language code
- en
- Wolfram Language entity code
- Entity["Language", "English::385w8"], Entity["Language", "English"]
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
- 06959794-n
- YSA ID
- Y95063
- YSO ID
- 2573
- Yle topic ID
- 18-219200
- Zhihu topic ID
- 19553528
- Ávvir topic ID
- engelasgiella
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Country 94
← Field of work 52+
Has phoneme 35
← Language used 35+
Subtypes 34+
Has part(s) 18
Has these parts 8+
Uses capitalization for 7
Has tense 6
Instance of 6
← Category combines topics 6+
Described by source 4
Influenced 4+
Named after 4+
Has grammatical case 3
Has grammatical mood 3
Linguistic typology 3
Belongs to 2+
On focus list of Wikimedia project 2
Subclass of 2
Writing system 2
← Uses 2+
Category for films in this language 1
Category for music in this language 1
Created notable works 1+
Digital Scriptorium Catalog item ID 1
FactGrid item ID 1
Has characteristic 1
History of topic 1
Indigenous to 1
Lingua Libre ID 1
Maintained by WikiProject 1
Named after 1
Signed form 1
Studied by 1
Things located in country 1+
Topic has template 1
Topic's main Wikimedia portal 1
Topic's main category 1
← Country of origin 1+
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English is a language that has been influenced by French[1], Vulgar Latin[1], Germanic languages[1], Greek[1], Italian[1], Spanish[1], and two additional languages[1].
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Influence
Things named for English include Singlish[15], a contact language[16], in Singapore[17]; UN English Language Day[18], a world day[19], founded in 2010[20]; Mary[21], an impact crater[22]; and Robert[23], an impact crater[24].
Why It Matters
English has been cited as an influence by Esperanto[25], a planned language[26], in Esperantujo[27], founded in 1887[28]; Indonesian[29], a language[30], in Indonesia[31]; Levantine Arabic[32], a natural language[33], in Syria[34]; and Globasa[35], an international auxiliary language[36], founded in 2019[37].
Entities named for English include Singlish[15], a contact language[16], in Singapore[17]; UN English Language Day[18], a world day[19], founded in 2010[20]; Mary[21], an impact crater[22]; and Robert[23], an impact crater[24].
FAQs
Who did English influence?
English has been cited as an influence by Esperanto[25], Indonesian[29], Levantine Arabic[32], and Globasa[35].