Commonwealth English is the set of varieties of the English language used in current and former countries of the Commonwealth. It connotes a mostly similar set of word spellings, punctuation rules and
English and Kinyarwanda text in Kigali, Rwanda. Rwanda, a Commonwealth country, was not previously part of the British Empire.
Multilingual stop sign on a First Nations reserve in Canada, featuring the Abenaki, French and English languages
The mother tongue of Anglo-Indians is English, whilst most Indians speak it as a second language.
Sign in Belizean Creole, an English-based creole language
The English-speaking world comprises the 88 countries and territories in which English is an official, administrative, or cultural language. In the 2000s, between one and two billion people spoke Engl
English in the Commonwealth of Nations
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English-speaking peoples monument in London