English Speaking Countries

Surprised to discover that in St Lucia, a British Commonwealth country, French Creole is the majority-spoken language.

Colonies get traded. Just look at the Falklands.

Falklands was more of a "Tag, it's mine" game between the British, Spanish, and Argentinians until the British thought to set up an actual colony there.

Just look at "Death in Paradise".

You may act all rufty and tufty until all those penguins feel insulted.

Got them all except the UK. Where I am.

I forgot America. Ashamed. Very ashamed.

....the continent???

Irish Gaelic + immigrant languages I'd imagine...

Ireland is not the same as uk you know, english is the adopted language not the original. Though it has near completely overshadowed gaeilge (irish) not many native speakers left only a few regions

There are not that many people in Ireland (I think the population is a little under five million), so you only need 500,000 people to account for that 10%. Between immigrants and people whose first language is Irish, I'd think it's a very reasonable number to attain.

It's about 6,600,000.

In the 1960s it was under 3 million. Now almost 5 million. In 1841 it was 8 million.

Yes, but 1841 was pre-partition

The majority of this quiz is in the Caribbean:)

No, I think it's on my computer.

Not many where it is spoken as a first language, but quite a lot where it is used as a lingua franca or one of many official languages.

In the Mediterranean.

Just above Africa.

Milk balls?

First language. Afrikaans in South Africa and many native ethnic languages. Try the other quiz mentioned, "English Speaking Countries" as opposed to first language on this quiz.

I do not believe that Afrikaans is South Africa's first language.

I kept looking for other Caribbean countries when I fdound out that I missed Australia and New Zealand.

Me too except I only overlooked Australia. Got so hooked up on trying to remember all the Caribbean islands

I thought that english was the official langauge of Nigeria,

and most countries in Europe speak english as a 2nd language, I don't know anyone who doesn't speak english

At home??

"Includes speakers of English creoles (marked in red)"

i. forgot. canada.

Don't they speak English in all the former British colonies in Africa?

i.e. Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, etc..

They do a lot in those countrires, at the top though it states;

"Name the countries where more than 50% speak English as a first language."

I'm surprised that only 30 percent had Guyana. It used to be called British Guyana just like French Guyana.

It's French Guiana, but I wonder why its called that. Is it French for Guyana?

no, in French it is called "Guyane"

malta?

You don't know what 'genocide' actually means.

And what about the island of Dominica? I'll do some research, but when I was there most folks spoke English.

forgot about st vincent and the grenadines!!!

This quiz would look quite different with just fluent speakers, not native language. I’d say it’d be a lot longer, especially in Europe and Africa.

India as well.

if you know the Caribbean this should be easy for you

Imo it's not that surprising,

57% of the country speaks English

Around 21% speaks French

That adds up to about 78%

~22% of the Canadian population is made up of immigrants... which would add up to basically equal 100%

Its true that there are probably many English and French speaking immigrants. But on the other hand, many children (of immigrants, or other) learn their parents' or family's language before they learn English or French, making it their first language.

I don't know if the two of those cancel each other out, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did.

Please forgive me if any of this doesn't make sense or the math doesn't add up... I just got my wisdom teeth out and I still have the anaesthetic in my system lol

In Malta almost everybody speaks English as a second language, but the main first language is Maltese and the national dish is Maltesers.

Why you didn't put India? The language English is important for India.

The quiz looks for countries with a majority of people speaking it as a first language.

English is also spoken in St Lucia,Botswana,Namibia,and Zambia

It is also spoken in South Africa

Less than a majority of people there speak it as a first language

You forgot India.

India should be in the list.

Also Fiji and Mauritius

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The Philippines: Am i a joke to you?

I doubt the Philippines have that many native English speakers. The relevant Wikipedia page doesn't even list English as part of natively spoken languages.

I suspect Singapore will land on this list in the next few years. Wikipedia (quoting Statistics Singapore) has English as the first language of 48.3% of Singaporeans, and it's growing rapidly: in 1990 that figure was only 18.8%. English is certainly the dominant language of Singapore, not only does it have a plurality of first-language speakers (having overtaken Mandarin in the last decade), but it is the lingua franca amongst Singaporeans generally, with the overwhelmingly majority of Singaporeans being able to speak it.

I mean, it is the country where English came from in the first place.

Where's South Africa?

At the southern tip of Africa.

(Though to answer the question you're actually asking, South Africa isn't on this quiz because less than 10% of its population speak English as a first language, and the cutoff for this quiz is 50%.)