Speaker count band groups languages by roughly how many people speak them. Wikipedia notes Spanish has "519 million native speakers... and about 636 million speakers total," numbers that place it among only a handful of languages spoken by hundreds of millions. This dimension lets a visitor compare languages of roughly the same reach.
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Estimated Speakers (Millions) 570000
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1. Wikipedia: Semitic Languages
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They are spoken by more than 460 million people across much of West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Malta, and in large immigrant and expatriate communities in North America, Europe, and Australasia.
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