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To the great shame of Orthodox Christian expatriats, the languages of Orthodox Christian liturgical celebration (Koine Greek, Church Slavonic, Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbian, Georgian) rank nowhere near the top of either list. Yet, those are the languages of the Orthodox Church in foreign lands, rather than the languages native to those countries where Orthodox Christians have expatriated from Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

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  <mark>At present...[Spanish] is the second most used language in international trade, and the third most used in politics, diplomacy and culture after English and French.</mark>

During the Renaissance, standard Italian was spoken as a language of culture in the main royal courts of Europe, and among intellectuals....