chapter 5.1 classifying languages
1 The world's 6000-plus languages can be classified into families, branches, and groups.
2 Only around 100 of these languages are used by more than 5 million people.
language family
a collection of languages related through a common ancestral languages that existed long before recorded history.
official language
It is a language used by the government for business.
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