The following is a list of countries and territories where English is an official language—that is, a language used in citizen interactions with government officials. As of 2019, there were 59 sovereign states and 27 non-sovereign entities where English was an official language.Many administrative divisions have declared English an official language at the local or regional level.

Pages in category "English-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,041 total. This list may not reflect recent changes ().(previous page) ()

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (AHD) is an American dictionary of English published by Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin, the first edition of which appeared in 1969.Its creation was spurred by the controversy over the perceived permissiveness of the Webster's Third New International Dictionary.The third edition had more than 350,000 entries …

The C Programming Language (sometimes termed K&R, after its authors' initials) is a computer programming book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the latter of whom originally designed and implemented the language, as well as co-designed the Unix operating system with which development of the language was closely intertwined. The book was central to the …

An assembly language is a programming language that can be used to directly tell the computer what to do. An assembly language is almost exactly like the machine code that a computer can understand, except that it uses words in place of numbers. A computer cannot really understand an assembly program directly. However, it can easily change the program into machine code …

Sinhala or Sinhalese, earlier referred to as Singhalese, is the language of the Sinhalese.They are largest ethnic group of Sri Lanka.It belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family.. Sinhala has two varieties/forms - Spoken and Written, the former being the most popular form.

In the English language, there are grammatical constructions that many native speakers use unquestioningly yet certain writers call incorrect. Differences of usage or opinion may stem from differences between formal and informal speech and other matters of register, differences among dialects (whether regional, class-based, or other), and so forth. . Disputes may arise when style …

The following are lists of words in the English language that are known as "loanwords" or "borrowings," which are derived from other languages.. For purely native (Anglo-Saxon-derived) words, see List of English words of Anglo-Saxon origin.English words of African origin; List of English words of Afrikaans origin. List of South African English regionalisms

Lieutenant colonel (UK: / l ɛ f ˈ t ɛ n ən t ˈ k ɜːr n əl / lef-TEN-ənt KUR-nəl, US: / l uː ˈ t ɛ n-/ loo-TEN-) is a rank of commissioned officer in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel.Several police forces in the United States use the rank of lieutenant colonel. The rank of lieutenant colonel is often shortened to ...

Svealand (pronunciation), Swealand is the historical core region of Sweden.It is located in south central Sweden and is one of three historical lands of Sweden, bounded to the north by Norrland and to the south by Götaland.Deep forests, Tiveden, Tylöskog, and Kolmården, separated Svealand from Götaland.Historically, its inhabitants were called Svear, from which is derived …