Global Mother Tongue

Description:

For centuries, the English language has been raiding other languages for words. It has accumulated the largest vocabulary in the world, with only 30% of its words deriving from the original Anglo-Saxon stock. English, in all of its unique forms and permutations, is spoken by 1.6 billion people in the world - almost a third of the planet's population.

subjects: History,  Foreign elements,  English language,  Lehnwort,  Variation,  Fremdwort,  Dialects,  Etymology,  English language, dialects,  English language, variation