English
English is one of 99 world languages in the LEXOS registry, belonging to the Indo-European language family. Every word or phrase can be analysed across 6 linguistic levels: phonetics → phonology → morphology → syntax → semantics → pragmatics.
West Germanic branch of Indo-European; Latin script. The world's most widely used lingua franca, official or co-official in roughly 60 countries, with grammar simplified by centuries of contact (Norse, Norman French) relative to other Germanic languages.
6 Levels of Analysis for English
Other Indo-European languages
Frequently asked about English
What language family does English belong to?
Indo-European.
At which levels can I analyse English?
Six levels: Phonetics (speech sounds, IPA), Phonology (phonemes and sound patterns), Morphology (word structure), Syntax (phrases and sentence structure), Semantics (literal meaning), Pragmatics (meaning in context).
Is English one of the most spoken world languages?
Yes — LEXOS catalogues the 99 most-spoken / most-commercially-relevant world languages, covering every major language family and every continent.