English is a language of Indo-European Germanic language family, which consists of 26 letters. It is the official language of the European Union, many international organizations and Commonwealth countries, and it is also the most widely used language in the world.
It was born in jutland and the Rhine valley, and spread to all parts of the world through British colonization. After that, it became an international language because of the world leading position of Britain and America in economy, military and politics.
Old English is greatly influenced by low Germanic languages, such as verbs, basic vocabulary, pronunciation, compound word structure, morphological changes, etc., but it is still very different from modern standard German. Modern English does not originate or evolve from Romance or French, but thousands of modern English words, a large part of which come from French, which is close to or even the same as French. Modern English and most modern European languages are spelled by letters.
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English vocabulary is huge (990,000 words in total), but to estimate the specific figures, we must first judge which words can be counted as it. However, unlike other languages, there is no authoritative academic institution to define what is a formal vocabulary. New words in the fields of medicine, science and technology are constantly emerging, some of which have entered the daily language of the public, and some are only used in a small range of people. Foreign language words brought by immigrant groups tend to blend into the English-speaking society. It is impossible to judge whether some ancient words and dialect words can be counted as English.
Old English is greatly influenced by low Germanic languages, such as verbs, basic vocabulary, pronunciation, compound word structure, morphological changes, etc., but it is still very different from modern standard German. Modern English does not originate or evolve from Romance or French, but thousands of modern English words, a large part of which come from French, which is close to or even the same as French. Modern English and most modern European languages are spelled by letters.