What countries of the British Empire spoke English?

Answer 1

List - How many countries were ruled by Britain?

Colonial name Modern name Year of independence Colonial name Modern name Year of independence Aden Yemen 1967 Kuwait 1961 Ascension Island Not yet Malaya (West Malaysia) 1965 Anguilla Not yet Maldive Islands 1976 Australia 1901 Malta 1964 Bahamas 1973 Mauritius 1961 Bahrain 1971 Montserrat Not yet Barbados 1966 Canada 1867 Newfoundland incorporated into Canada 1949 Basutoland Lesotho 1966 New Hebrides (with France) Vanuatu 1980 Bechuanaland Botswana 1966 New Zealand 1947 Bermuda Not yet Nigeria 1960 British Cameroon Cameroon (part) 1961 North Borneo Sabah 1965 British Guyana Guyana 1966 Nyasaland Malawi 1963 British Honduras Belize 1981 Oman Never formally a protectorate British Somaliland Somaliland 1960 Papua New Guinea 1976 British Solomon Islands Solomon Is. 1978 Palestine Israel 1948 Brunei Brunei 1984 Pitcairn Island Not yet Burma Myanmar 1948 Qatar 1971 Northern Rhodesia Zambia 1964 Southern Rhodesia Zimbabwe 1980

1964 Cayman Islands Not yet Sarawak East Malaysia 1965 Ceylon Sri Lanka 1948 St Helena Not yet Cook Islands NZ assoc. St Kitts St Kitts/Nevis 1983 Cyprus 1960 St Lucia 1979 Falkland Islands and dependencies Not yet St Vincent 1979 Egypt 1922? Seychelles 1976 Fiji 1970 Sierra Leone 1961 Gambia 1965 Singapore 1963 Gibraltar Not yet South Africa 1910 Gilbert and Ellice Islands Kiribati & Tuvalu 1979

1978 Sudan 1954 Gold Coast (Ghana) 1957 Swaziland 1968 Tanganyika Tanzania 1963 Grenada 1974 Tonga 1970 Guernsey Channel Is. Transjordan Jordan 1948 Hong Kong China 1997 Trinidad Trinidad & Tobago 1962 India Pakistan & Bangladesh) 1947 Tristan Da Cunha Not yet Iraq 1932 Trucial Oman United Arab Emirates 1971 Ireland 1922 Turks and Caicos Islands Not yet Jamaica 1963 Uganda 1962 Jersey Channel Is. Western Samoa 1962 Kenya 1963 Zanzibar Tanzania 1963. Isle of man. Rockall. Heligoland Germany 1890

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Answer 2

Answer

The countries settled mainly by people from the British Isles were English-speaking, in particular:

Australia, New Zealand, most of Canada, much of South Africa. (When the Thirteen Colonies were part of the Empire they also came into this category). In addition, most of the British Carribean Islands though the population of most of these islands is Negro.

In other parts of the Empire, such as India, English was used as the main language for trade, administration, politics and education.

Answer 3

Just about all of them