In the sixteenth century, English, one of the Germanic groups of Indo-European languages, was the national language of England, used by a few million speakers living in the British Isles.

• 在十六世纪内，英语是印欧语系语言中日尔曼的语群之一,是英格兰本国的语言,只有不列颠群岛少数的几百万人使用。