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Կպատմեմ ՀՀԿ-ական բարձրաստիճան պաշտոնյայի մասին. «էլիտար» մարմնավաճառի հուշերը

Կպատմեմ ՀՀԿ-ական բարձրաստիճան պաշտոնյայի մասին. «էլիտար» մարմնավաճառի հուշերըԿպատմեմ ՀՀԿ-ական բարձրաստիճան պաշտոնյայի մասին. «էլիտար» մարմնավաճառի հուշերըԿպատմեմ ՀՀԿ-ական բարձրաստիճան պաշտոնյայի մասին. «էլիտար» մարմնավաճառի հուշերը

 

 

French influence, both in vocabulary and spelling. During the English Renaissance, many words were coined from Latin and Greek origins.[203] Modern English has extended this custom of flexibility when it comes to incorporating words from different languages. Thanks in large part to the British Empire, the English language is the world’s unofficial lingua franca.[204]

English language learning and teaching is an important economic activity, and includes language schooling, tourism spending, and publishing. There is no legislation mandating an official language for England,[205] but English is the only language used for official business. Despite the country’s relatively small size, there are many distinct regional accents, and individuals with particularly strong accents may not be easily understood everywhere in the country.

As well as English, England has two other indigenous languages, Cornish and Welsh. Cornish died out as a community language in the 18th century but is being revived,[206][207] and is now protected under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.[208] It is spoken by 0.1% of people in Cornwall,[209] and is taught to some degree in several primary and secondary schools.[210][211]

When the modern border between Wales and England was established by the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542, many Welsh-speaking communities found themselves on the English side of the border. Welsh was spoken in Archenfield in Herefordshire into the nineteenth century,[212] and by natives of parts of western Shropshire until the middle of the twentieth century if not later.[213]

State schools teach students a second language, usually French, German or Spanish.[214] Due to immigration, it was reported in 2007 that around 800,000 school students spoke a foreign language at home,[192] the most common being Punjabi and Urdu. However, following the 2011 census data released by the Office for National Statistics, figures now show that Polish is the main language spoken in England after English.[215]

Religion
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Canterbury Cathedral, seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury
Main article: Religion in England
Further information: History of Christianity in England
In the 2011 census, 59.4% of the population of England specified their religion as Christian, 24.7% answered that they had no religion, 5% specified that they were Muslim, while 3.7% of the population belongs to other religions and 7.2% did not give an answer.[216] Christianity is the most widely practised religion in England, as it has been since the Early Middle Ages, although it was first introduced much earlier in Gaelic and Roman times. This Celtic Church was gradually joined to the Catholic hierarchy following the 6th-century Gregorian mission to Kent led by St Augustine. The established church of England is the Church of England,[217] which left communion with Rome in the 1530s when Henry VIII was unable to annul his divorce to the aunt of the king of Spain. The church regards itself as both Catholic and Protestant.[218]

Saint George is the patron saint of England
There are High Church and Low Church traditions and some Anglicans regard themselves as Anglo-Catholics, following the Tractarian movement. The monarch of the United Kingdom is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, which has around 26 million baptised members (of whom the vast majority are not regular churchgoers). It forms part of the Anglican Communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury acting as its symbolic worldwide head.[219] Many cathedrals and parish churches are historic buildings of significant architectural importance, such as Westminster Abbey, York Minster, Durham Cathedral, and Salisbury Cathedral.

The 2nd-largest Christi