Worldwide, German accounts for the most written translations into and from a language. Around the world, German is spoken by ~100 million native speakers and also ~30 million non-native speakers, and Standard German is widely taught in schools and universities in Europe. German is closely related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. It is one of the two official Rocket German languages of the Netherlands and one of the world’s major languages. With slight differences, the same language is called Dutch in the Netherlands and Flemish in Belgium. Dutch or Flemish is the contemporary descendent of Middle Dutch. The East Germanic branch of the Germanic languages was spoken by the Germanic speaking people who ultimately settled in southeastern Gaul in the fifth century C.E.