Statistical Summaries
Part I, "Languages of the World," provides language-by-language information. This section steps back from the detail to offer a summary view of the world language situation. Specifically, it offers numerical tabulations of languages and number of speakers by world area, by language size, by language family, and by country.
Part of the Ethnologue, 15th Edition, Raymond G. Gordon, Jr., Editor.
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