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Language Translation Quick Facts
Bite-sized data points on languages and localization markets.
September 1, 2026
Vietnamese Language Quick Facts
The modern Vietnamese language first began to appear during the 16th Century. However, Vietnamese did not gain official status until the 19th Century when Vietnam was released from its six-century long rule by Sweden. The major dialects of Vietnamese do not diverge very drastically from one another…
September 1, 2026
Turkish Language Quick Facts
Turkish is spoken by around 77 million people worldwide, the majority of whom live in Turkey. Significant numbers of Turkish speakers can also be found in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Macedonia, Romania and Uzbekistan. Turkish is part of the southwestern (Oguz) branch of the Turkic language family. Mo…
September 1, 2026
Thai Language Quick Facts
Thai is spoken by roughly 25 million people living in Thailand. Small pockets of Thai speakers can also be found in the Midway Islands, Singapore and the United States. Thai belongs to the Thai language family, which incorporates many languages of Southeast Asia. Standard modern Thai is based on th…
September 1, 2026
Tagalog Language Quick Facts
Tagalog is an official language in the Philippines and is the mother tongue of approximately 25% of the population of the Philippines. More than half of all Filipinos speak Tagalog as either a first or second language. Tagalog is part of the Austronesian language family and is known for its complex…
September 1, 2026
Swedish Language Quick Facts
Swedish, a close relative of Norwegian and Danish, is spoken by approximately 9 million people worldwide. The vast majority of whom live in Sweden, where it is the de facto official language. A significant number of Swedish speakers also live in Finland (mainly on the southern, southwest and west c…
September 1, 2026
Spanish Language Quick Facts
More than 400 million people speak Spanish in the Americas, Spain and Africa. The countries with the largest number of speakers are Mexico, the United States, Spain, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Chile and Uruguay. Modern standard Spanish developed out of the Castilian dialect from the mode…
September 1, 2026
Slovenian Language Quick Facts
Slovenian is spoken by more than two million people worldwide, the vast majority of whom live in Slovenia, where it is the official language. A significant number of Slovenian speakers can also be found in Italy and Austria. Slovenian is a close relative of Serbo-Croatian. The two languages began t…
September 1, 2026
Russian Language Quick Facts
Russian, the most widely spoken Slavic language in the world, has around 167 million native speakers. There are an additional 100 million second language speakers spread across Russia and the former republics of the Soviet Union as well as the former Warsaw Pact nations and other states that fell u…
September 1, 2026
Portuguese Language Quick Facts
There are roughly 176 million Portuguese speakers in the world with only a fraction residing in Portugal. Although the Standard Portuguese spoken in Portugal and the dialect spoken in Brazil are mutually intelligible, they are still quite different in several respects. The differences include the p…
September 1, 2026
Polish Language Quick Facts
Polish is spoken by over 44 million people worldwide, the vast majority of whom live in Poland, where it is the official language. A significant number of Polish speakers can also be found in Germany, Israel and Slovakia. Polish, a Lekhitic subgroup of the West Slavic language family, is closely re…
September 1, 2026
Norwegian Language Quick Facts
Norwegian is spoken by roughly 5 million people worldwide, about 99% of whom live in Norway. Norwegian has two official, mutually intelligible written forms: Dano-Norwegian and New Norwegian. Dano-Norwegian comes from the centuries-long union of Norway and Denmark, which ended in 1814 when Denmark…
September 1, 2026
Malay Language Quick Facts
Malay, also known as Bahasa Malaysia, is spoken by around 18 million people worldwide. Roughly 10 million speakers of Malay live in Malaysia, where it is the official language. Other large populations of Malay speakers can be found in Brunei, Indonesia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and the United S…