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) Language Family (Classification)
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1. Wikipedia: Indo-Aryan Languages
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As of the early 21st century, there were 800 million speakers, primarily concentrated east of the Indus River in South Asia, spread across Eastern Pakistan, Northern India, southern Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Maldives.
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