The German language is the most frequently spoken mother tongue in the European Union
humanities and social sciences. Non-Ger-
long way behind English, but only just be-
man-speaking scholars only very rarely
hind Russian.
publish in German, whereas German-speaking scholars by contrast publish extensively
Globalisation is exerting pressure on all in-
in English, particularly in the sciences. On
ternational languages, and this is serving to
the Internet, however, the German language
appreciably further strengthen the position
plays an important role. With regard to the
of English as the world language. But Ger-
most used languages there, based on Web-
man will nonetheless remain an important
sites German was in third place in 2015, a
international language.