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Language Family (Classification)

This dimension links a language to the wider family it belongs to. Wikipedia describes Spanish as "a Romance language of the Indo-European language family," placing it inside two nested groupings at once. Browsing by language family gathers languages that share the same distant common ancestor.

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Estimated Speakers (Millions)
350 1
Language Family (Classification)

Indo-European

Language Family (Classification)
29 entries

Afro-Asiatic

Language Family (Classification)
15 entries

Germanic

Language Family (Classification)
9 entries

Austronesian

Language Family (Classification)
5 entries

Sino-Tibetan

Language Family (Classification)
5 entries

Slavic

Language Family (Classification)
5 entries

Dravidian

Language Family (Classification)
4 entries

East Slavic

Language Family (Classification)
3 entries

South Slavic

Language Family (Classification)
3 entries

Uralic

Language Family (Classification)
3 entries

Bantu

Language Family (Classification)
2 entries

Niger-Congo

Language Family (Classification)
2 entries

Turkic

Language Family (Classification)
2 entries

Uto-Aztecan

Language Family (Classification)
2 entries

West Slavic

Language Family (Classification)
2 entries

Altaic

Language Family (Classification)
1 entry

Austroasiatic

Language Family (Classification)
1 entry

English-based Creole

Language Family (Classification)
1 entry

Eskimo-Aleut

Language Family (Classification)
1 entry

Iroquoian

Language Family (Classification)
1 entry

Japonic

Language Family (Classification)
1 entry

Kartvelian

Language Family (Classification)
1 entry

Khoisan

Language Family (Classification)
1 entry

Koreanic

Language Family (Classification)
1 entry

Kra-Dai

Language Family (Classification)
1 entry

Mayan

Language Family (Classification)
1 entry

Mongolic

Language Family (Classification)
1 entry

Na-Dene

Language Family (Classification)
1 entry

Nilo-Saharan

Language Family (Classification)
1 entry

Pama-Nyungan

Language Family (Classification)
1 entry

Trans-New Guinea

Language Family (Classification)
1 entry

Tungusic

Language Family (Classification)
1 entry
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Bantu Languages
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The total number of Bantu speakers is estimated to be around 350 million in 2015 (roughly 30% of the population of Africa or 5% of the world population).
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