Official status records whether a government or body has formally recognized a language. Wikipedia notes that Spanish "is the official language of 21 countries, as well as one of the six official languages of the United Nations," a formal standing well beyond how widely it is merely spoken. This dimension separates languages with formal recognition from those spoken without any official status.
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Estimated Speakers (Millions) Official Status
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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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