The language spoken by most people is Chinese with a total of approximately 1.3 billion people, with the People's Republic of China having the largest share. Standard Chinese (also called Mandarin) accounts for the most with 875 million speakers, but Wu (80 million), Cantonese (70 million) and Ming (60 million) are also notable, followed by other regional or mit languages related to Chinese in the People's Republic. Chinese is also native to the Republic of China (Taiwan), which is home to only about 23 million people.

If you take only the population of the citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland as a basis, you arrive at around 95 million people who speak German. There are also Belgium (including the official language), the Netherlands, France (Alsace), Luxembourg (including the official language), Italy (South Tyrol - including the official language), and Liechtenstein (the only official language) as countries where German is spoken or where there is potential for it . There are also German-speaking areas in Hungary ("Donauschwaben"), Romania (Transylvania and the Banat), the former Czechoslovakia, Poland, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Namibia (formerly German Southwest Africa), the USA, Canada, Argentina, Paraguay, Mention Brazil and Australia.

According to a study by the European Union from 2005, 51% of the population in Europe alone speaks English - native speakers included. If you add the rest of the world's population, the distribution is even wider. So many people are familiar with English as a world language. But when it comes to the best possible correctness in written and subject-specific contexts, the work and experience of professional translators are required.

French is spoken by well over 100 million people worldwide and is therefore considered a world language. But it is also a world language in another sense, as it is often used as an administrative language, the language of business transactions and diplomacy. Besides English, French is both the sole working language of the United Nations and one of the four main official languages of the European Union.

Italian is an important language in Europe - not only because Latin lives on in it in the least "falsified" way, but also because the main inspirations in the Renaissance period first came from Italy and promoted culture in other countries. Also, in earlier centuries, Italian was an important internationally used trade language.

Japanese is spoken by almost 130 million people in the mainland, but also by hundreds of thousands in Brazil, the United States and the Hawaiian Islands. Due to its importance as one of the leading industrial nations, the Japanese language is also widely spoken internationally and anchored in business life.

Like English, Dutch belongs to the large group of Germanic languages. Afrikaans, the language spoken in South Africa and Namibia since the era of colonization and to some extent to this day, evolved from Dutch. The Frisian spoken in Germany is related to Dutch - also the so-called "Low German", a dialect spoken on the Lower Rhine.

Portuguese - like the other "world languages" - is spoken by many people worldwide as a result of the age of colonization. Their number is estimated at around 200 million, of which the population of Brazil, at around 190 million, accounts for a huge proportion. Portuguese is also an official language in Angola, the Cape Verde Islands, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and alongside Chinese in the Macao Peninsula, which today belongs to the People's Republic of China.

Along with Ukrainian and Belarusian, the Russian language belongs to the East Slavic languages (as opposed to West Slavic, Polish, Czech and Slovak and South Slavic languages such as Slovene, Serbian, Croatian and Bulgarian). Around 164 million people speak Russian as their mother tongue, and the total number of Russian speakers (native speakers plus second speakers) is estimated at around 280 million.

Swedish is spoken by no more than 8.5 million people, but because of the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland it is also an official language there, alongside Finnish. In addition, it is quite understandable for both Norwegians and Danes. Swedish belongs to the large Germanic language family and is the main language of an industrialized country that is important for world trade.

With around 350 million speakers worldwide, Spanish is one of the five most spoken languages in the world. With the exception of Brazil, Spanish is spoken throughout South America, Central America, parts of North America, Asia, particularly the Philippines, and western North Africa.