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A Little English Language Quiz 1.�� English is a CelticGermanicSlavic�language. 2.�� There are about�300 million50 million900 million� native speakers of English. 3.�� English is listed as the official or co-official language of over��20457 countries. 4.�� English is the�1st most widely spoken language in the world (before Chinese and Spanish)2nd most widely spoken language in the world (after Chinese and before Spanish)3rd most widely spoken language in the world (after Chinese and Spanish). 5.�� The history of the English language started with the arrival of�the Romansthe Celtsthe Angles, Saxons and Jutes� to the��� ����� British�Isles during the�5th�century AD. 6.� �They crossed the North Sea from today's�Denmark and GermanyFranceItaly. 7.�� English is named after� a tribe that spoke a language form which modern English developeda king who conquered Britain in 1066a king that was the first to speak this language. 8.�� In 1066 the�the Vikingsthe Romansthe Normans conquered Britain. 9.�� After 1066 the language of the aristocracy was�NorseFrenchLatin� and the language of the common� ����� people�was��FrenchEnglishNorse, so today's English is a unique mixture of these two languages. 10.�In 109913991599, King Henry IV�became the first king of England since the�RomanScandinavianNorman conquest ���� �whose�mother�tongue was English. 11. The vocabulary of English is the largest of any other language. There are at least�100,000250,000500,000 ����� words�in English. 12. An average native English speaker uses about�1,0005,00010,000 words in his everyday speech.�� 13. Winston Churchill was famous for his large vocabulary. In his writings he used�20,00040,00060,000 words. �