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English speakers
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0 |
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[48th of 52]
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English speakers (per $ GDP)
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0 per $10,000 of GDP |
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[30th of 35]
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English status
Used by some Asian residents as mother tongue. Taught in secondary school and university. Bible 1535-1989. |
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SOURCE: Ethnologue |
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English-speaking population > As an additional language
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4,000,000
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[20th of 59]
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DEFINITION:
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SOURCE: Ethnologue |
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English-speaking population > Total
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4,000,000 |
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[23rd of 99]
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DEFINITION: English-speaking population includes both native speakers and second language speakers of English. A first language, native language, arterial language, mother tongue, or L1 in linguistics, is the first language that a person learned. In terms of that view, the person is defined as a native speaker of the first language. A second language (L2) is any language learned after the first language or mother tongue (L1). |
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SOURCE: Wikipedia: List of countries by English-speaking population
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Languages > A note
Kiswahili (Swahili) is the mother tongue of the Bantu people living in Zanzibar and nearby coastal Tanzania; although Kiswahili is Bantu in structure and origin, its vocabulary draws on a variety of sources, including Arabic and English, and it has become the lingua franca of central and eastern Africa; the first language of most people is one of the local languages |
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SOURCE: Wikipedia: List of countries by English-speaking population |
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Languages of the African Union > Illiteracy > Literacy rate
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69.4
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[132nd of 174]
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DEFINITION:
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SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003 |
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