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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1. Wikipedia: Dravidian Languages
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The Dravidian languages are a family of languages spoken by 250 million people, primarily in South India, but also in parts of North India, Bangladesh and Nepal, north-east Sri Lanka, and south-west Pakistan, with pockets in Afghanistan and Iran.
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