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== Language ==
Language has shifted and swayed a great deal, including and especially English.

The 20th and 21st century saw the rise of the internet and indefinite information storage, and other semi-permanent media has existed for a long time. This has somewhat reduced the amount of change in language, though some changes have been inevitable, including major influences from Hindu into British English and French into European English. The English languages are officially recognized as separate, though the differences are mostly dialectical; there are no major fundamental differences, and speakers of one- while not fluent can generally get by in another.

Various Englishes are incredibly common worldwide; roughly 2 billion- 20.89%- people on earth speak at least one type of English fluently, and another 3 billion know the language to some degree.
This nonetheless leaves another 5 billion who cannot speak a word, something that tourists and heavy 'net users still tend to forget.
It should also be noted that this figure does not include the number of English languages that have diverged sharply from standard English; while it includes Standard African English, it does not include Ugandan English, AKA Lugandishi.

On the internet, the most widely spoken form of English is Grigg's English, an evolution of an amalgamation of the various offline languages and many slang-terms. It is a strange pidgin, nonetheless understandable by most people with a knowledge of an English.