There are about 3000 living languages in the world today, but only about six of them are major languages of the world. Two-thirds of the world's population speaks those "six" languages. More than 400 million people speak english as their first or native language. Another 400 million speak it as a second language. Nobody knows exactly how many people speak it as a foreign language. Chinese is the only language with more speaks than english. This is because of the huge population of china, more than one billion people
English is the native of official language on one-fifth of the land area of the world. It is spoken in north america, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. In South africa and india it is one of the official languages. More people study English than any other language. In many countries. The textbooks in universities are in english. Many university classes are taught in english even though the native language is not english
English is the language of the international communication. It is the language of international bisiness, research, and science. More than three fourths of the world's mail is written in englíh. More than three fifths of the world's radio stations use English. More than half of the scientific and research journalr are in english. Most other languages have borsowed many English words.