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At the same time, according to the degree of its presence in the global linguistic space, Russian comes fourth after French, English, and Indonesian. There are 3.5 persons speaking French for each native speaker of the French language; the correlation is 3.3 for the English language and 2.9 for Indonesian. In this respect, Russian comes close to German: There are 1.7 German speakers per native speaker of German and 1.67 Russian speakers per native speaker of Russian.
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