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English as a World Language

       

English is spoken as a mother tongue in England, the USA, Canada, Australia, India. Today, when English is one of the major languages in the world.

English has become a world language because of its establishment¹ as a mother tongue outside England. Geographically, English is the most widespread language on Earth, second only to Chinese in the number of people who speak it. It is the language of business, technology, sport, and aviation.
People learn English as their native language or  as a second language in a society that is mainly bilingual. Some people learn it for a practical purpose – administrative, professional or educational. 

Basic characteristics of English are simplicity of form, flexibility and openness of vocabulary. 
Verbs now have very few inflections, and adjectives do not change according to the noun.

 Many nouns and verbs have the same form, for example,  walk, look, smile.

We can talk about water to drink and to water the flowers; a paper to read and to paper a bedroom. Adjectives can be used as verbs. Sometimes even prepositions  can operate as verbs

Openness of vocabulary involves the free admission of words³ from other languages and the easy creation of compounds and derivatives.