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  1. Indo-European language family
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    English language, Language belonging to the Germanic languages branch of the Indo-European language family, widely spoken on six continents.
    The English language belongs to the Indo-European language family, which includes languages spoken by over three billion people. This means that English is related to languages like German and Dutch. There are many different dialects of English, and the language has evolved over time.
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    A language family is a group of languages that share a common ancestor. The Indo-European language family, for example, includes languages like English, German, and Dutch. All of these languages are closely related and share the same language family because they descended from a common ancestor. Languages can be related in different ways.
    English belongs to the **West Germanic** language family, which is a branch of the **Germanic** languages.Other languages that belong to the West Germanic family include Dutch, German, and Frisian .
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    English relies mainly on word order (usually subject-verb-object) to indicate relationships between words ( see syntax). Written in the Latin alphabet, it is most closely related to Frisian, German, and Dutch. Its history began with the migration of the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons from Germany and Denmark to Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries.
    Today, English is one of the most common languages in the world, spoken by around 1.5 billion people globally. It is the official language of many countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
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    British English (BrE, en-GB, or BE) is the set of varieties of the English language native to the island of Great Britain. More narrowly, it can refer specifically to the English language in England, or, more broadly, to the collective dialects of English throughout the British Isles taken as a single umbrella variety, for … See more

    English is a West Germanic language that originated from the Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain by Germanic settlers from various parts of … See more

    Phonological features characteristic of British English revolve around the pronunciation of the letter R, as well as the dental plosive T … See more

    British English is the basis of, and very similar to Commonwealth English. Commonwealth English is English spoken and written in Commonwealth countries, though often with … See more

    Sounds Familiar? Archived 12 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine – Examples of regional accents and dialects across the UK on the See more

    Dialects and accents vary amongst the four countries of the United Kingdom, as well as within the countries themselves.
    The major divisions are normally classified as English English (or English as spoken in England (which is itself broadly grouped into See more

    As with English around the world, the English language as used in the United Kingdom is governed by convention rather than formal code: there is no body equivalent to the See more

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  4. Web19 Apr 2024 · English language, a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that is closely related to the Frisian, German, and Dutch languages. It originated in England and is the dominant …

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  6. A Brief History of the English Language: From Old English to …