What percentage of the world population speak Standard English? |
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Comments: 11 |
Added: May 2004 |
Comments:
| RonBee - 25th November 2006 07:15
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| Well under 50% of the word's population speaks English of any kind.
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| Evan - 4th February 2007 17:11
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| Anyone who thinks that over 50% of the world speaks english has clearly never left the confines of their own small town.
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| Adam Brewer - 23rd April 2007 01:04
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| "Standard English" is not defined. Does it mean a native speaker, or does it include people who know "standard" English as a second language and just excluding Pidgins.
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| Tom - 21st May 2007 08:11
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| It is around 30%. 322 million people speak english as first language, and 500 million speak it as a second language. Its almost around a billion in total. Yet the world population is 6 Billion +. So i believe that it is only 30% maximum. And will decrease in the future.
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| google - 4th June 2007 16:23
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| that is weird
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| Raybee - 9th June 2007 16:58
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| I thought less than 50% of the world speaks Mandarin and that is the world's most spoken language; thus there must be less than 50% of people who speak Standard English
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| English girl - 27th September 2007 13:23
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| what is the worlds poulation?
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| kimmikoto - 22nd November 2007 02:09
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| About 6 billion people
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| aye english - 20th December 2007 07:48
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| in just about any remote corner of the world you go, somebody speaks english. but in los angeles, right here in the largest english speaking country in the world, at least 25% of the population (conservative estimate) doesn't speak english. now that just ain't no good.
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| jerry - 4th January 2008 01:06
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| Your English just aint no good
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| burhoe - 3rd June 2008 00:06
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| WHo cares what people's opinions are? Most people were wrong. What is the correct answer?
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