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Region

Region names the place where a language first took shape. Wikipedia notes that Spanish "originated in the Kingdom of Castile, a historical kingdom in north-central Spain," long before it spread across the Americas. This dimension shows which regions have given the world their own home-grown languages.

Region

Albania, Kosovo

Ancient Egypt, along the Nile Valley

Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka

Andorra, France, Italy, Spain

Balochistan

Baltic

Belarus

Benin, Nigeria, Togo

Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Argentina

Bosnia, Herzegovina and Sandžak

Botswana, South Africa

Burundi

Central Asia

Central Asia (Turkestan)

China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia

Eastern Greater Iran

Eastern India

Eastern Mediterranean, Greco-Roman world

Eastern Visayas (Philippines)

Egypt

Enga Province, Papua New Guinea

Eritrea and the Tigray region of Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Etruria, Italy

Faroe Islands

Fiji

Finland

France and Spain

Ghana

Ghana and Togo (West Africa)

Greenland, with recognized minority status in Denmark

Guangdong, Guangxi, western Hainan, Hong Kong, and Macau

Haiti

Hawaii (Niihau)

The Hopi Reservation, northeastern Arizona, United States

Horn of Africa

Iceland

India

Indonesia

Iran

Iranian Azerbaijan, South Caucasus

Kerala, Lakshadweep and Puducherry, India

The Kingdom of Aksum, modern Ethiopia and Eritrea

Latium (the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy)

Lesotho, South Africa

Lithuania

Lower Nubia to Khartoum area, Sudan

Madagascar and Mayotte

Malawi, eastern Zambia, Mozambique

Maldives and Minicoy Island (Lakshadweep, India)

Mali

Malta

Maritime Southeast Asia and the Malay Peninsula

Mesopotamia (Assyria and Babylonia), modern Iraq

Namibia, Botswana and South Africa

Nepal

The Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, France (Nord)

New Zealand

North Africa and Berber diaspora

Northern Europe

Northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan

Norway

Oromia

Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil

Pontic-Caspian steppe of eastern Europe and central Asia

Rapa Nui (Easter Island), a special territory of Chile

Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland

Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda

Sahel

Samoa, American Samoa

Sasanian Empire

Senegambia

Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Croatia

Sindh and surrounding areas

Southeastern Europe

Southern Africa

Southern and Western India (Konkan region)

Southern Mesopotamia, modern Iraq

Sri Lanka

Sweden and Finland