The language industry is the sector of activity dedicated to facilitating multilingual communication, both oral and written.
[2] The European Language Industry Association limits the sector to translation, localisation, internationalisation and globalisation.
[4] An emerging view expands this sector to include editing for authors who write in a second language, especially English, for international communication.
Achievements of the industry include the ability to quickly translate long texts into many languages.
[8] The largest portion, 5.7 billion euros, was ascribed to the activities of translation, interpreting, software localisation and website globalisation.