Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Approximately 360 to 400 million people speak English as their first language.More than half of these (231 million) live in the United States, followed by some 60 million in the United Kingdom, the first place where English was spoken.English is the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.Estimates that include second language speakers vary greatly, from 470 million to more than 1 billion. David Crystal calculates that non-native speakers as of 2003 outnumbered native speakers by a ratio of 3 to 1. When combining native and non-native speakers, English is the most widely spoken language worldwide.Besides the major varieties of English, such as British English, North American English, Australian English, South African English, New Zealand English and their sub-varieties, countries such as the Philippines, Jamaica and Nigeria also have millions of native speakers of dialect continua ranging from English-based creole languages to Standard English."@en }
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- English-speaking_world abstract "Approximately 360 to 400 million people speak English as their first language.More than half of these (231 million) live in the United States, followed by some 60 million in the United Kingdom, the first place where English was spoken.English is the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.Estimates that include second language speakers vary greatly, from 470 million to more than 1 billion. David Crystal calculates that non-native speakers as of 2003 outnumbered native speakers by a ratio of 3 to 1. When combining native and non-native speakers, English is the most widely spoken language worldwide.Besides the major varieties of English, such as British English, North American English, Australian English, South African English, New Zealand English and their sub-varieties, countries such as the Philippines, Jamaica and Nigeria also have millions of native speakers of dialect continua ranging from English-based creole languages to Standard English.".
- Q987355 abstract "Approximately 360 to 400 million people speak English as their first language.More than half of these (231 million) live in the United States, followed by some 60 million in the United Kingdom, the first place where English was spoken.English is the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.Estimates that include second language speakers vary greatly, from 470 million to more than 1 billion. David Crystal calculates that non-native speakers as of 2003 outnumbered native speakers by a ratio of 3 to 1. When combining native and non-native speakers, English is the most widely spoken language worldwide.Besides the major varieties of English, such as British English, North American English, Australian English, South African English, New Zealand English and their sub-varieties, countries such as the Philippines, Jamaica and Nigeria also have millions of native speakers of dialect continua ranging from English-based creole languages to Standard English.".