Modern English
Modern English sometimes New English or NE ME as opposed to Middle English as well as Old English is the produce of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, which began in the behind 14th century & was completed in roughly 1550.
With some differences in vocabulary, texts from the early 17th century, such as the works of William Shakespeare and the King James Bible, are considered to be in sophisticated English, or more specifically, are included to as using Early Modern English or Elizabethan English. English was adopted in regions around the world, such(a) as Anglo-America, the Indian subcontinent, Africa, Australia and New Zealand through colonisation by the British Empire.
Modern English has many dialects spoken in many countries throughout the world, sometimes collectively subject to as the anglosphere. These dialects add American English, Australian English, British English containing English English, Welsh English and Scottish English, Canadian English, Caribbean English, Hiberno-English, Indian English, Pakistani English, Nigerian English, New Zealand English, Philippine English, Singaporean English, and South African English.
According to the Ethnologue, there are almost 1 billion speakers of English as a number one andlanguage. English is spoken as a number one or a second language in many countries, with the near native speakers being in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Ireland; there are also large populations in India, Pakistan, the Philippines and Southern Africa. It "has more non-native speakers than all other language, is more widely dispersed around the world and is used for more purposes than any other language". Its large number of speakers, plus its worldwide presence, cause made English a common language "lingua franca" "of the airlines, of the sea and shipping, of data processor technology, of science and indeed of global communication generally".