绝色经典
英语，即英国的语言，英国的普通话为声调诡秘的伦敦音．英语是目前全世界最为通用的语言，原因来自于英国当时的强大，可想而知，如果中国在近三个世纪都保持世界霸主地位的话，世界最为重要的通用语言将为汉语．目前本土语言是英语系的有英国，英属各国，英国殖民地，美国等，甚至印度，新加坡这样的亚洲国家也将英语做为官方语言，当然这与当时英国的殖民主义有关，也可见英语应用的广泛程度遍布世界各个角落．英语在下列国家和地区是第一语言：澳大利亚、巴哈马、爱尔兰、巴巴多斯、百慕大、圭亚那、牙买加、新西兰、圣克里斯多福及尼维斯、特立尼达和多巴哥、英国和美国。 英语在下列国家和地区中是主要的语言，这些国家包括巴西（连同葡萄牙语）、加拿大（连同法语）、多米尼克、圣路西亚和圣文森及格瑞那丁（连同法语）、密克罗尼西亚联邦、爱尔兰共和国（连同爱尔兰语）、利比里亚（连同非洲语言）、新加坡和南非（连同南非荷兰语和其它非洲语言）。 英语是下列国家和地区的官方语言，但不是本地语言：斐济、加纳、冈比亚、香港、印度、基里巴斯、莱索托、肯尼亚、纳米比亚、尼日利亚、马耳他、马绍尔群岛、巴基斯坦、巴布亚新几内亚、菲律宾、所罗门群岛、萨摩亚群岛、塞拉利昂、斯威士兰、坦桑尼亚、赞比亚和津巴布韦。 另外，英语在欧洲及日本是最普遍作为外语来学习的语言（32.6％），接着是法语、德语和西班牙语。
雪皑皑xueaiai
英语（English），属于“印欧语系-日耳曼语族-西日耳曼语支”。根据以英语作为母语的人数计算，英语是最多国家使用的官方语言，英语也是世界上最广泛的第一语言，也是欧盟和许多国际组织和英联邦国家的官方语言，拥有世界第三位的母语使用者人数，仅次于汉语和西班牙语母语使用者人数。英语由古代从丹麦等斯堪的纳维亚半岛以及德国、荷兰及周边移民至不列颠群岛的盎格鲁、撒克逊和朱特部落的白人所说的语言演变而来，并通过英国的殖民活动传播到了世界各地。由于在历史上曾和多种民族语言接触，它的词汇从一元变为多元，语法从“多屈折”变为“少屈折”，语音也发生了规律性的变化。在19至20世纪，英国和美国在文化、经济、军事、政治和科学在世界上的领先地位使得英语成为一种国际语言。如今，许多国际场合都使用英语做为沟通媒介。英语也是与电脑联系最密切的语言，大多数编程语言都与英语有联系，而且随着网络的使用，英文的使用更普及。英语是联合国的工作语言之一。 一些人认为低地苏格兰语是与英语最接近的一个独立语言，而一些人则认为它是英语的一个方言。与古英语最接近的是古弗里西语，这种语言现在仍在德国北部和荷兰的弗里斯兰省使用。苏格兰语、低地撒克逊语、丹麦语、德语、荷兰语、南非荷兰语和英语也很接近。拥有血统的法国的诺曼人于11世纪征服英格兰王国，带来数万法语词汇和拉丁语词汇，很大程度地丰富了英语词汇外，相对也驱使不少原生的语汇作废。
吃土少年Hollar
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria. Following the economic, political, military, scientific, cultural, and colonial influence of Great Britain and the United Kingdom from the 18th century, via the British Empire, and of the United States since the mid-20th century, it has been widely dispersed around the world, become the leading language of international discourse, and has acquired use as lingua franca in many regions.It is widely learned as a second language and used as an official language of the European Union and many Commonwealth countries, as well as in many world organizations. It is the third most natively spoken language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.Historically, English originated from the fusion of languages and dialects, now collectively termed Old English, which were brought to the eastern coast of Great Britain by Germanic (Anglo-Saxon) settlers by the 5th century – with the word English being derived from the name of the Angles.A significant number of English words are constructed based on roots from Latin, because Latin in some form was the lingua franca of the Christian Church and of European intellectual life. The language was further influenced by the Old Norse language with Viking invasions in the 8th and 9th centuries.The Norman conquest of England in the 11th century gave rise to heavy borrowings from Norman-French, and vocabulary and spelling conventions began to give the superficial appearance of a close relationship with Romance languages to what had now become Middle English. The Great Vowel Shift that began in the south of England in the 15th century is one of the historical events that mark the emergence of Modern English from Middle English.Owing to the significant assimilation of various European languages throughout history, modern English contains a very large vocabulary. The Oxford English Dictionary lists over 250,000 distinct words, not including many technical or slang terms, or words that belong to multiple word classes.
