Ethnologue lists English as a major language in over 100 nations and territories

[Tooting Carmen]

Including some places where it has no official status, due to how widely-spoken and taught it is:

Argentina (though this is in large part due to the large English community in Buenos Aires), Austria, Bahrain, Bhutan, Cambodia, Colombia (though mostly in the islands of San Andres and Providencia), Curacao, Denmark, Dominican Republic (though these are mostly African-American descendants in Samana), Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, Germany, Honduras (though mostly in the Bay Islands), Israel, Lebanon, Madagascar, Maldives, Monaco, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, St Martin, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sweden, United Arab Emirates.

In addition, once second-language speakers are included, then India has the second-largest number of English speakers after the USA (200,000,000 people, aka nearly a fifth of India's population).

Do read it all: https://www.ethnologue.com/language/eng

[The Lawspeaker]

Bookmarked as well.

[Tooting Carmen]

Considering all the tripe that passes for debate in this forum - "my country is whiter than yours", "no, mine is whiter than yours", "your country is full of n******s", I am astonished that hardly anyone has commented on this! The spread of English is unprecedented in the history of the world - not Latin, not Greek, not Sanskrit, not Chinese, not Arabic, not Hindi, not Spanish, not French - has ever penetrated the globe to anything like this extent.

[The Lawspeaker]

English is used as an official language on Saba and Sint Eustatius (BES Islands), as well as the autonomous states of Curaçao and Sint Maarten. On the BES islands the official curriculum is, mainly, in English. As for the mainland (European Netherlands), a lot of government material is translated into English as well.

[Tooting Carmen]

English is used as an official language on Saba and Sint Eustatius (BES Islands), as well as the autonomous states of Curaçao and Sint Maarten. On the BES islands the official curriculum is, mainly, in English. As for the mainland (European Netherlands), a lot of government material is translated into English as well.

Would you say that English has supplanted Dutch as the main language in the Dutch Antilles?

[The Lawspeaker]

Would you say that English has supplanted Dutch as the main language in the Dutch Antilles?

I don't live there but I would think it has.

[Mingle]

It's well known that English is the global lingua franca. Are we supposed to be surprised by this?

[Tooting Carmen]

It's well known that English is the global lingua franca. Are we supposed to be surprised by this?

Not as such, but at the scale of it yes.

[Arsen_]

I wonder will the Brexit reduce the importance of English language in Europe?

[Tooting Carmen]

I wonder will the Brexit reduce the importance of English language in Europe?

Not much, given how it has long been the lingua franca.