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Q: What are the top ten largest English speaking countries in the world?
My colleagues and I were discussing bout it this afternoon. Facts anyone?
Top 10 in population English speaking countries, as their main, and virtually only tongue .
1 United States 299,000,000 Native American and Hawaiian languages, are strong in some areas
2 England, 50,000,000
3 Canada 32,400,000 Native American languages have some strengh Look at http://www.info-facts.com/
4 Australia 20,500,000 Aborigine languages are strong
5 Scotland 5,000,000 Gaelic has some majorities in some islands
6 Republic of Ireland 4,100,000 Gaelic is strong in small parts Look at http://www.info-facts.com/
6 New Zealand 4,100,000 Maori languages are spoken by some,
7 Wales 2,900,000 Welsh is strong in some parts Look at http://www.info-facts.com/
8 Jamaica 2,731,000
9 Northern Ireland 1,600,000 Gaelic is strong in some parts
10 Trinidad and Tobago 1,200,000 Hindi, is spoken by small numbers,
twentynine:
Don't you forget that Canada has 2 official languages: English and French! In Quebec province you can't expect everyone to speak English, especially in Quebec city. And according to wikipedia "The 2001 count noted that of 29,639,030 speakers, 20,014,645 spoke English only, and 5,231,575 spoke English and French, while 3,946,525 spoke French only and 446,920 who were classified as speaking "neither English nor French".
I also found this on Wikipedia:
List of countries by English-speaking population
1.US
2. India
3.Philippines
4.Nigeria
5.UK
6.Germany
7.Pakistan
8.France
9.Pakistan
10.Australia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_popul...
mattaya:
That was from wikipedia and it also said the year 2000 and that list is for countries with native speakers and english as a second language. The list I showed was all native and none as english as a second language.
twentynine:
You are right. Below you'll also see a list in order of native speakers. Rank Country First language 1 United States 225,505,953[1] 2 United Kingdom 58,200,000[20] 3 Canada 18,232,195[21] 4 Australia 15,581,334[22] 5 Ireland 4,400,000[23] 6 South Africa 3,673,203[24] 7 New Zealand 3,500,000+ (approx.)[25] 8 Philippines 3,427,000[8] 9 Jamaica 2,600,000+ (approx.)[26] 10 Trinidad and Tobago 1,145,000
