English

English is a West Germanic language.
==Geographic Distribution==
===Official Language in===
*Africa: Botswana, Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
*America: Canada, United States
*Asia: India, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore
*Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago
*Europe: Ireland, Malta, United Kingdom
*Oceania: Australia, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
==Phonology==
===Consonant phonemes===
 	Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal 	m 	 	n 	 	 	ŋ 	
Stop 	p	b 	 	t	d 	 	 	k	ɡ 	
Affricate 	 	 	 	tʃ	dʒ 	 	 	
Fricative 	f	v 	θ	ð 	s	z 	ʃ	ʒ 	 	x 	h**
Approximant	 	 	ɹ* 	 	j 	 	w
Lateral 	 	 	l 	 	 	 	
* Conventionally transcribed /r/.** Mainly used in Scottish and Hiberno-English; words with /x/ in Scottish accents tend to be pronounced with /k/ in other dialects. 
Category:Languages
Category:Indo-European languages
Category:Germanic languages
Category:West Germanic languages
Category:English language
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