1)How many people speak English?
-Out of the world 7.5billion inhabitans, 1.5 billion speak English that's 20% of the earth's population.However,most of those people aren't native English speakers. About 360million people speak English as their first language.In addition to being widely spoken,English is by far the most commonly studied foreing language in the world, followed by French at a distant second.
2)How many words does the English language have?
-There is no single sensible answer to this question.It's possible to count the number of words in a lanquage,because its so hard to decide what actually counts as a word.
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