In group places a language family inside the smaller branch it belongs to. Wikipedia notes Indo-European has "eight are still spoken: four by hundreds of millions of native speakers each (Indo-Iranian, Italic, Germanic, and Balto-Slavic), and four by fewer than fifteen million." This dimension nests a family inside the specific branch it sits within.
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1. Wikipedia: Indigenous Languages Of South America
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About 600 indigenous languages are known from South America, Central America, and the Antilles (see List of indigenous languages of South America), although the actual number of languages that existed in the past may have been substantially higher.
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