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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, 16th Edition, M. Paul Lewis, Editor.
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