Status records how vital a language currently is, from thriving to endangered or extinct. Wikipedia notes Spanish is "the world's second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese," about as far from endangered as a language can be. This dimension separates languages still growing from those quietly disappearing.
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Estimated Speakers (Millions) 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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