Speaker count band groups language families by roughly how many people speak a language from that family. Wikipedia notes that "over 3.4 billion people (42% of the global population) speak an Indo-European language as a first language," by far the largest total of any family. This dimension lets a visitor compare families of similar overall reach.
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Estimated Living Languages 133.000000
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1. Wikipedia: Languages Of Australia
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Over 250 Australian Aboriginal languages are thought to have existed at the time of first European contact.
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