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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.