[adriancr]

> Including people who speak English as a second language, estimates of the total number of Anglophones vary from 1.5 billion to 2 billion

wikipedia. You are a bit off...

As for native you have US+UK+Canada+Australia+NZ+Ireland. So more then your 380M.

[Retric]

~47 million Americans aren’t native English speakers having immigrated from a non English speaking country.

[switchbak]

Who cares if they're native English speakers or not, as long as they can converse in the language?

[Retric]

shortrounddev2 who brought the topic up without knowing the numbers.

[adriancr]

Source?

[Retric]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_immigration_stat...

[adriancr]

> aren’t native English speakers

Where does it state this?

Do you assume that all immigrants are non-native english speakers?

[Retric]

By coming from different country their native language (IE what language they heard as infants) more closely resembles that country than America. Note I said 47 million and there are more than 47 million immigrants.

There are also some native born Americans to immigrants who also don’t have English as their first language and People born in China whose first language is English, but that’s ever smaller refinements on a specific estimate.

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