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Region names where a language family is spoken today, which can be far wider than where it began. Wikipedia notes several Indo-European languages "have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across Africa, Americas, Oceania and North Asia." This dimension shows the present-day reach of a family rather than only its point of origin.

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Arafundi River, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea

Aramia River region, Western Province, Papua New Guinea.

Around Kerema Bay, Papua New Guinea

Aru Islands, Indonesia

Babar Islands, Indonesia

Baliem Valley, Highland Papua, Indonesia

Central Flores, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia

Central Taiwan

central Vanuatu

East Kalimantan, Indonesia

East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

East Sepik Province and Madang Province, Papua New Guinea

East Sepik Province, northern Papua New Guinea

Eastern Bird's Head, Indonesian Papua

eastern Flores and nearby islands, Lesser Sundas, Indonesia

Eastern New Guinea

Eastern Solomon Islands

Espiritu Santo Island in northern Vanuatu

Etna Bay, Kaimana Regency, West Papua province, Indonesia.

Fiji and Polynesia

Finisterre Range, New Guinea

Fly River Delta area, Papua New Guinea

Foja Mountains region of western New Guinea.

Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Halmahera Sea and Raja Ampat Islands

Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea

Indonesia

Indonesia (Sulawesi)

Indonesian Borneo, Madagascar and the Sulu Archipelago

Inland from the Papuan Gulf, southern Papua New Guinea.

Island of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea

Islands between Mindoro and Palawan, Philippines

Kapuas Hulu Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Lakes Plain of Indonesian New Guinea

Madang and Morobe Provinces, Papua New Guinea

Maluku Islands, Indonesia

Manus Province, Papua New Guinea

Maritime Southeast Asia

Micronesia

Mindanao, Philippines, and Sabah, Malaysia

Mindoro Island, Philippines

Molof village, Senggi District, Keerom Regency

Nawa River, New Guinea, near the Papua New Guinea border

New Caledonia

New Guinea (Pauwasi language area)

New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea

North coast of Papua province, Indonesia, Sarmi Regency

North Sumatra, Indonesia, and surrounding areas

Northern Mindanao, Central Mindanao and Caraga, Philippines

Northern New Guinea

Northern New Guinea: Papua New Guinea and Indonesia

Northern Papua New Guinea

Northern Sarawak, Borneo

Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia

Northern Taiwan

Northern Vanuatu

Oceania, Polynesia

Oriomo Plateau, west of the Fly River, Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands

Papua Province, Indonesia

Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia

Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia

Sabah, Malaysia, on Borneo

Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea

Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea, along the Samaia River

Senu River watershed, Papua New Guinea

Sepik and Ramu river basins, northern Papua New Guinea

Sepik river basin of northern Papua New Guinea.

Seram, Buru, Ambon and the Sula Islands, Indonesia

South Borneo (Indonesia) and Madagascar

South Borneo (South Kalimantan), Indonesia

South-central New Guinea, in the area of the Fly River.

Southeast coast of Halmahera, North Maluku, Indonesia

southern coast of Mindanao Island, Philippines

Southern South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia

Sumba, eastern Indonesia

Tafea Province, Vanuatu

Taiwan