Who Owns English ?

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More people speak English than any other languege, but according to English langueges expert David Crystal, non-native speakers now outnumber native speakers by three to one."There's never before been  a languege that's been spoken more as a second languege than first,"he says. By the end of last year, the number of adult English speakers inAsia had reached 350 million. And according to the British Council, in ten years time 2 billion people will study Englsih and about half the world's population will speak it.