Speakers of English are from time to timeacknowledgedas Anglophones, and thenationsthe placeEnglish is spoken nativelybythe majority of thepopulaceare termed the Anglosphere. Over two billionhumanscommunicateEnglish as of the 2000s making English thebiggestlanguageby means ofthenumberof speakers, and the1/3greatestlanguageby means oftherangeof native speakers.
The United States and India have the mostcompleteEnglish speakers, with 283 million andone hundred twenty-fivemillion, respectively. There areadditionally108 million in Pakistan,seventy-ninemillion in Nigeria, andsixty-fourmillion in the Philippines. WhenthosewhotalkEnglish as a2ndlanguage are included, estimates of thevarietyof Anglophonesdiffergreatly, from 470 million toextrathantwobillion.