Speaker count band groups language families by roughly how many people speak a language from that family. Wikipedia notes that "over 3.4 billion people (42% of the global population) speak an Indo-European language as a first language," by far the largest total of any family. This dimension lets a visitor compare families of similar overall reach.
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Estimated Living Languages 3900
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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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