Speaker count band groups languages by roughly how many people speak them. Wikipedia notes Spanish has "519 million native speakers... and about 636 million speakers total," numbers that place it among only a handful of languages spoken by hundreds of millions. This dimension lets a visitor compare languages of roughly the same reach.
Facts
Comparison
Estimated Speakers (Millions) Speaker Count Band
0 to 400,000
Speaker Count Band
5 entries
430,000 to 5,500,000
Speaker Count Band
3 entries
5,600,000 to 15,000,000
Speaker Count Band
2 entries
16,000,000 to 59,000,000
Speaker Count Band
3 entries
60,000,000 to 1,500,000,000
Speaker Count Band
4 entries
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Austronesian Languages
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They are spoken by approximately 386 million people (4.4% of the world population).
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