File talk:Anglospeak-proficiency.svg

Considerations

Considerations:

1. Create a shade of blue that represents: "Countries/regions in which the mother tongue of the majority of the population is an English-based creole language but the main language of governance is English"
2. Use the color purple that shows the countries/regions where there is a small English-creole speaking ethnic minority in a country that may or may not use standard English as the language of government.
3. Another shade of blue should refer to the countries in which there is a widely spoken Anglo-creole language in the nation/region although non of official languages are English.
4. Use the color shown below (used to indicate where Russian is spoken) to show countries/regions in which one of the official languages is English but also has the presence of an English-based creole spoken as a lingua franca in informal situations by people who may also be well educated in formal English.
5. Don't forget to use a green square to show cities/settlements/regions where Englsih is a prominent minority language.
6. Use dots to show countries to small to see, e.g. Caribbean, Southeast Asia.

P.S. Don't forget about shading Quebec the right shade.

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Here are their uses:

English-based creole languages:

• Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Belize, the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, the Virgin Island, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Cayman Islands, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Vantu, Torres Strait Islands, the Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea are all the countries/dependencies/regions where an Anglo-creole language is the native tongue/lingua franca of the majority population while standard English is the language of government.
• Limonese, Miskito Coast Creole, Colón Creole, Rama Cay Creole, Bay Islands Creole, Bocas del Toro Creole, Bende, Samaná English, Afro-Seminole Creole, Gullah, Aluku, Ndyuka, Paramaccan, Kwinti, Saramaccan, and Aku are all English-based creole languages spoken by a small ethnic minority in a region/country that does not speak their language.

They are spoken in: the eastern coast of Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama roughly stretching from the Caratasca Lagoon in Honduras to the Bocas del Toro Archipelago in Panama; the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras; the Colombian-controlled Archipelago of San Andrés off the coast of Nicaragua; the Samaná Peninsula in the Dominican Republic; very small, scattered communities in the northeastern Florida wilderness; the South Carolina Lowcountry and the Sea Islands in coastal South Carolina and Georgia; small settlements near the national border in the Maripasoula region of French Guiana; a small community in the interior wilderness of the Marowijne District in Suriname; a small cluster of settlements at the bank of the Coppename River; eastern Suriname wilderness; around the Saramacca River and Suriname River with some populations in French Guiana; an in The Gambia.

• The islands of Saba, Saint Martin, & Sint Eustatius under Dutch & French control, Sranan Tongo in Suriname; and the the Fernandino languages on Bioko Island are all the regions in which the majority of the population speaks an English-based creole language but does not have English as the official language.
• Nigeria, Liberia, Cameroon, Philippines, Singapore, and Malaysia are all countries in which English is not the native tongue but a English-based creole has reached the status of lingua franca in informal settings. Standard English is still used as lingua franca in formal settings.

Refer to this list to get ideas about how to show small countries/regions.

Legend

English

Countries/dependencies where English has official language status and/or is the main mother tongue.   Countries/dependencies where the mother tongue is an English-based Creole but the main language of government is formal English.   Countries/dependencies in which there is a widely spoken Anglo-creole language in the nation/region although non of official languages are English.   Countries where English is official but is not a widely-spoken language.   Countries in which English is not the native tongue but a English-based creole has reached the status of lingua franca in informal settings. Standard English is still used as lingua franca in formal settings as it is also the official language.   English-based creole languages unique to a small ethnic minority.   Cities/settlements where English is a major minority language and/or has a notable presence large presence.

ThisguyYEAH (talk) 03:11, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

World outline

The world outline is messed up: Russia, Greenland, Alaska are sticking out of the map, to name a few. I would try to fix it myself, but no original file is shown in the description. 〜Britannic124 (talk) 22:03, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Mention what grey means

E.g., Mongolia is grey. So less than 0%? 114.26.45.79 02:41, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Presumably it means "No useful information was available in the original source en:List of countries by English-speaking population at the time that the map image was made"... -- AnonMoos (talk) 17:04, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Malta

Why Malta is not marked on map? About 90% Maltan people speak English. And also, English in Malta is co-official language. Subtropical-man (talk) 22:07, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

I'm having a hard time figuring out whether Malta is shown on the map at all. Some other "world distribution maps" show small island countries and Andorra/Liechtenstein etc. as circles larger than geographical size, but this one doesn't... AnonMoos (talk) 22:22, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

It does not change the fact that Malta should be on the map. Subtropical-man (talk) 10:27, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

This file is in serious need of updating

The file as is seems seriously to understate levels of understanding of English in quite a few countries. I've been looking at the sources for updating the article "English language" on English Wikipedia, which used to use this file, but this file needs fixing before it's useful in article space for Wikipedia projects. Who would like to fact-check the file and gather some sources for improving it? -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 19:43, 26 March 2015 (UTC)