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German language is the official language of Germany, Austria, and Liechtenstein, and one of the official languages of Switzerland and Luxembourg. Estimates of the number of German speakers worldwide range from 100 million to 120 million. German is the fourth most widely used European language, following English, Spanish, and Russian.

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