English language

English language - basic facts:
 * part of West Germanic language family, where belong Dutch, German, Luxembourgish, Scots etc., it is western sub-branch of Germanic branch of Indo-European family
 * first language for most of people from United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland
 * second and official language for people in many countries and international organizations
 * grammmar has less inflection than Dutch or German and does not have grammatical gender and adjectival agreement
 * it uses Latin alphabet with 26 letters