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: Slavic Languages
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The number of speakers of all Slavic languages together was estimated to be 315 million at the turn of the twenty-first century.
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