英格蘭人

英格蘭人英語:古英語:)是英國英格蘭的原住族群民族母語英語。他們在過千年前被古英語稱作「Anglecynn」時已有高度的身分認同。英格蘭人主要居住於英國構成國家英格蘭上。

英格蘭人
總人口
约8千万-1亿
分佈地區
 英國 37.6 million in
 英格兰 and  威尔士[1]
Significant English diaspora in
 美國50 million[2] (1980)a
 澳大利亚7.8 million[3] (2016)b
 加拿大6.3 million[4] 2016)c
 南非1.6 million[5] (2011)d
44,000–282,000[6]
 阿根廷100,000
語言
英語
宗教信仰
基督教聖公會天主教、其他新教

以族群的角度看,英格蘭人被認為凯尔特布立吞人盎格魯-撒克遜人凱爾特人維京人等遠古族群的後裔。以民族的角度看,因為近年大量外國少數民族移民,英格蘭人極多元化。

注釋

  1. The 2011 England and Wales census 页面存档备份,存于 reports that in England and Wales 32.4 million people associated themselves with an English identity alone and 37.6 million identified themselves with an English identity either on its own or combined with other identities, being 57.7% and 67.1% respectively of the population of England and Wales.
  2. Bureau, U.S. Census. . Factfinder2.census.gov. [21 August 2017]. (原始内容存档于18 January 2015). 已忽略未知参数|url-status= (帮助)
  3. (PDF). homeaffairs.gov.au. 2018 [14 December 2019].
  4. Government of Canada, Statistics Canada. . www12.statcan.gc.ca. 2017-02-08 [December 14, 2019].
  5. (PDF). Pretoria: Statistics South Africa. 2012: 26. ISBN 9780621413885. (原始内容 (PDF)存档于13 May 2015). 已忽略未知参数|url-status= (帮助) The number of people who described themselves as white in terms of population group and specified their first language as English in South Africa's 2011 Census was 1,603,575. The total white population with a first language specified was 4,461,409 and the total population was 51,770,560.
  6. (Ethnic origin) The 2006 New Zealand census 存檔,存档日期19 February 2008. reports 44,202 people (based on pre-assigned ethnic categories) stating they belong to the English ethnic group. The 1996 census used a different question 存檔,存档日期19 February 2008. to both the 1991 and the 2001 censuses, which had "a tendency for respondents to answer the 1996 question on the basis of ancestry (or descent) rather than 'ethnicity' (or cultural affiliation)" and reported 281,895 people with English origins; See also the figures for 'New Zealand European'.
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