World Language
English speaking world
Superpower
Colonies
Internet
Satelite TV
Media, film, TV, music, gaming, business and industry
Foreign Language
English as taught to people whose main language is not English and who live in a country where English is not the official or main language
Abroad
Foreigner
Alien
First Language
Mother tongue
Inner circle countries:
Antigua and Barbuda
¤ Australia
The Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
¤ Canada*
Dominica
Grenada
Guyana
¤ Ireland
¤ Jamaica
¤ New Zealand
St Kitts and Nevis
St Lucia
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
¤ United Kingdom
¤ United States of America
Hovedemne
common language used to communicate between people with different native languages.
Second language
Official Language
• Botswana, Cameroon (co-official with French), the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji
• Ghana
• Hong Kong
• India
• Kenya
• Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia
• Malta, the Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Namibia
• Nigeria
• Pakistan
• Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines
• Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone
• Singapore
• the Solomon Islands
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• South Africa
• South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe