Complete the text with the following words: speak, tourism, of, derives, spoken, to, speakers, written, previously. the english language english is a germanic language of the indo-european family. it is the second most (1) language in the world. it is estimated that there are 300 million native (2) and 300 million who use english as a second language and a further 100 million use it as a foreign language. it is the language of science, aviation, computing, diplomacy, and (3) it is listed as the official or co-official language of over 45 countries and is spoken extensively in other countries where it has no official status. half (4) all business deals are conducted in english. two thirds of all scientific papers are (5) in english. over 70% of all post / mail is written and addressed in english. most international tourism and aviation is conducted in english. the history of the language can be traced back (6) the arrival of three germanic tribes to the british isles during the 5th century ad. angles, saxons and jutes crossed the north sea from what is the present day denmark and northern germany. the inhabitants of britain (7) spoke a celtic language. this was quickly displaced. most of the celtic speakers were pushed into wales, cornwall and scotland. one group migrated to the brittany coast of france where their descendants still (8) the celtic language of breton today. the angles were named from engle, their land of origin. their language was called englisc from which the word, english (9)

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