cat_eyes  +  81361 Tue, 15 Mar 05 11:37 AM hi all, i really want to know how many people or countries speak English as thier native language? and what r these countries?? thx alot cat_eyes Joined on Tue, Mar 15 2005 New Member 01 Speak English

	YoungCalifornian  +  81469 Tue, 15 Mar 05 08:49 PM Off the top of my head I can think of the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Jamaica. I'm sure there are some more Carribbean countries as well. Also, there are probably more countries like India who use English as an official language although it's not the dominant one. YoungCalifornian Joined on Mon, Feb 14 2005 Los Angeles, California Regular Member 586 Speak English

	ahava_yin  +  81691 Wed, 16 Mar 05 05:53 PM Hi I found this list on the internet. http://geography.about.com/library/misc/blenglish.htm English is an official language or is predominantly spoken in the following countries: Antigua and Barbuda Australia Bahamas Barbados Beliza Botswana Canada Fiji Gambia Ghana Grenada Guyana India Jamaica Kenya Kiribati Liberia Malawi Malta Marshall Islands Mauritius Micronesia Namibia New Zealand Nigeria Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Philippines Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore South Africa Swaziland Tanzania Trinidad and Tobago United Kingdom United States Vanuatu Zambia Zimbabwe Some of those countries have English as official language and they have their own language as well. But I don't know in which of the countries, English is not native language for them. ahava_yin Joined on Thu, Sep 9 2004 Full Member 335 Hi, I'm learning English. Your notes help me a lot. I love the forum. Speak English, Malta

	Forbes  +  130544 Thu, 25 Aug 05 09:33 AM According to the Ethnologue the national or official languages of India are Hindi and English. There are 22 official 'scheduled' languages: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Meitei, Nepali, Oriya, Eastern Panjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu. There are apparently 415 living languages. The Ramayana and Mahabharata epics were written in the ancient Sanskrit language. As Sanskrit has a special place in Indian culture and is still much studied (rather like Latin was in Europe until quite recently) that presumably explains why it is a scheduled language. Forbes Joined on Thu, Jun 16 2005 Regular Member 895 Speak English

	nona the brit  +  156800 Wed, 09 Nov 05 11:56 AM And there are areas of Canada where French is the native language.   nona the brit Joined on Wed, Sep 22 2004 England Veteran Member 11,713 The name says it all.