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"What is English" in detail please​

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English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and eventually became a global lingua franca. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the area of Great Britain that later took their name, England. Region: British Isles (originally); Worldwide

Native speakers: 360–400 million (2006); L2 speakers: 750 million; as a foreign language: 600–700 million

Early forms: Old English: Middle English > Early Modern English

Signed forms: Manually coded English; (multiple systems)

Language family: English is an Indo-European language and belongs to the West Germanic group of the Germanic languages

Writing systems: Latin script (English alphabet), Anglo-Saxon runes (Historically), English Braille, Unified English Braille

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In English grammar, the subject is the part of a sentence or clause that commonly indicates (a) what it is about, or (b) who or what performs the action (that is, the agent). The subject is typically a noun ("The dog . . ."), a noun phrase ("My sister's Yorkshire terrier . . ."), or a pronoun ("It . . .").

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