Around the world, though, the UK is something of an international outlier in not nominating an official national language, as the vast majority of countries have. And what's more-as a new survey ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The language intelligence research institute, Ethnologue, recently released a list of the most spoken ...

Such places include Austria, Sweden, and Belarus. Twelve countries on the continent picked German as the language they’d most like to speak; Croatia and Denmark are only a few of them.

But Hindi is the most spoken language there, helping people communicate and bringing the country together despite all the different languages. In Brazil, Portuguese is the most spoken language.

Guyana is the only country in South America with English as the official language. This is a leftover byproduct of British colonization – Guyana gained independence in 1966.

In this article, we will take a look at the 15 countries with English as official language in the world. If you want to skip our discussion on the language trends, you can go directly to the 5 ...

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According to the maps, which use data from the CIA World Factbook and Wikipedia, 55 countries use English as their second language. Meanwhile, 14 use French, 13 Russian, eight Spanish and six Arabic.

English is the official language of 67 countries and 27 non-sovereign entities globally. Around 400 million people speak English as their first language.