This dimension links a dialect or variety back to the single language it belongs to. Wikipedia describes American English as "the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States," a phrase that ties the variety to its parent language in one line. Browsing by parent language gathers every recognized variety of one language in a single place.
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Estimated Speakers (Millions) Parent Language
Sources
1. Wikipedia: English Language
Wikimedia FoundationLead section, Ethnologue speakers sentenceQuote, Lead section, Ethnologue speakers sentence
Ethnologue estimated that there were over 1.4 billion speakers worldwide as of 2021.
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