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Spanish (or, lit. “Castilian”) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial spoken Latin in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

Today, it is a global language with nearly 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain.

Spanish is the official language of 20 countries.

It is the world's second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's fourth-most spoken language overall after English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance language.

The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico.

French (or) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages.

French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul.

Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) largely supplanted.

French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the (Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders.

Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole.

A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French.

is an East Asian language spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language.

Japanese belongs to the Japonic (i.e. Japanese-Ryukyuan) language family, and its classification with other language families is unclear.

Linguists have tried grouping the Japonic languages with other families such as the Ainu, Austroasiatic, Koreanic, and now-discredited Altaic, but none of these proposals have gained widespread acceptance.

Japanese has no demonstrable genealogical relationship with Chinese.

However, a large portion of its vocabulary is borrowed from Chinese.

Loanwords have become frequent in modern Japanese, and words from English roots have proliferated.

Chinese (or also, especially for the written language) is a group of languages that form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages family, spoken by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China.

About 1.3 billion people (or approximately 16% of the world's population) speak a variety of Chinese as their first language.

German is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Central Europe.

It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia.

German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots, and Yiddish.

It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic group, such as Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish.

German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language after English which is also a West Germanic language.