English as a Global Language

World Language

English speaking world

Superpower

Colonies

Internet

Satelite TV

Media, film, TV, music, gaming, business and industry

Expanding Circle

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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

Inner Circle

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First Language

Native 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

Lingua Franca

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common language used to communicate between people with different native languages.

Outer Circle

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