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With about 100 million native speakers, German is the most widely spoken native language in the European Union. It is the commonly used language in Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein, and it is one of the official languages of Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Belgium, where it is used by parts of the population. Around the world, German is spoken by around 30 million nonnative speakers [6], and is also the second most studied foreign language in the EU after English [7].
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Rehm, G., Uszkoreit, H. (2012). The German Language in the European Information Society. In: Rehm, G., Uszkoreit, H. (eds) The German Language in the Digital Age. White Paper Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27166-3_8
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