英語世界
使用英语的一个圈子
英語世界(英語:English-speaking world)指使用英語作為官方語言或官方語言之一的國家。世界上的英語國家包括英國、美國、加拿大、澳大利亞、紐西蘭、愛爾蘭和南非等。同時,英語世界也可以指使用英語的地區。
世界主要國家以英語為母語的使用人數
國家 | 母語使用者 | |
---|---|---|
1 | 美國 | 300,809,000[2] |
2 | 英國 | 60,200,000[3] |
3 | 加拿大 | 25,232,195[4] |
4 | 澳洲 | 20,581,334[5] |
5 | 愛爾蘭 | 4,200,000+(估計)[3] |
6 | 南非 | 3,673,203[6] |
7 | 紐西蘭 | 3,500,000+(估計)[7] |
參考文獻
- ^ Data are from national censuses conducted in 2010 or 2011 in the reported countries.
- ^ U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2003, Section 1 Population (pdf). U.S. Census Bureau: 59 pages. [2008-06-29]. (原始內容存檔 (PDF)於2014-12-28) (英語). Table 47 gives the figure of 214,809,000 for those five years old and over who speak exclusively English at home. Based on the American Community Survey, these results exclude those living communally (such as college dormitories, institutions, and group homes), and by definition exclude native English speakers who speak more than one language at home.
- ^ 3.0 3.1 The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Second Edition, Crystal, David; Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, [1995] (2003-08-03).. [2008-06-29]. (原始內容存檔於2016-03-03).
- ^ Population by mother tongue and age groups, 2006 counts, for Canada, provinces and territories – 20% sample data (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館), Census 2006, Statistics Canada.
- ^ [1] (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館) Main Language Spoken at Home. The figure is the number of people who only speak English at home.
- ^ Census in Brief 互聯網檔案館的存檔,存檔日期2007-08-09., page 15 (Table 2.5), 2001 Census, Statistics South Africa.
- ^ Languages spoken 互聯網檔案館的存檔,存檔日期2007-03-29., 2006 Census, Statistics New Zealand. No figure is given for the number of native speakers, but it would be somewhere between the number of people who spoke English only (3,008,058) and the total number of English speakers (3,673,623), if one ignores the 197,187 people who did not provide a usable answer.