Speaker count band groups language families by roughly how many people speak a language from that family. Wikipedia notes that "over 3.4 billion people (42% of the global population) speak an Indo-European language as a first language," by far the largest total of any family. This dimension lets a visitor compare families of similar overall reach.
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Estimated Living Languages Speaker Count Band
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Languages Of Papua New Guinea
Wikimedia FoundationLead section (Papua New Guinea, the macroarea's linguistic core)Quote, Lead section (Papua New Guinea, the macroarea's linguistic core)
Ethnologue, among other sources, state that there are 840 living languages spoken in the country, although estimates vary due to the distinction between a language and a dialect.
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