The largest language "killers" are English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, Hindi, and Chinese, all of which have privileged status as dominant languages threatening minority languages.
As the Austronesian peoples spread throughout the Pacific the languages they spoke diversified into one of the largest language families in the world containing around 1,000 to 1,200 languages [20].
"We'll see a tapering off of new article creation in the large language Wikipedias as more and more 'verifiable' topics are covered.
As the largest English-language publisher, Random House has a considerable impact on the market for manuscripts.
Mr. Kao, 49, worked for The World Journal, which bills itself as the largest Chinese-language newspaper in North America.
He was chief executive-designate when Bertelsmann acquired Random House early in 1998, solidifying its position as the largest English-language publisher in the world.
The victim, David Kao, 49, was a marketing executive of The World Journal, which describes itself as the largest Chinese-language newspaper in North America.
St . PetersburgBooks-Music-Video, which its owner, Joseph Berov, describes as the largest Russian-language bookstore outside Russia, carries more than 10,000 book titles on its 6,000-square-foot 6,000-square-foot 6,000-square-footnd 5,000 CD'space
Meanwhile, more traditional rivals such as Mail Online, the largest English-language newspaper website in the world, continue to focus heavily on audience growth.
If Hale was right, then Pama-Nyungan, with more than 200 identified languages, would be one of the world's largest language families larger than Indo-European and almost as large as Sino-Tibetan.
