How many types of the English language are there?

With 375 million native speakers and 1.5 billion total speakers English is by far the most widely spoken language in the world and as such has become a lingua franca for international business. read more

Currently, there are 60 sovereign states and 28 non-sovereign states that have English as an official language. Not only do each and every one of these have their own dialect or dialects, but each is different from the other. read more

Despite the fact that English is an official language in over 60 countries around the world, there are only 6 countries where it is actually spoken as a native language by the majority of the population. read more

Those are the biggest but, there are more. Also, British English is misleading as a term. It's really more of a collective term for the different forms of the language, within the UK. Covering what is literally English (the language used in England) and the other, non-English British forms. read more