Macro area names the broad world region where a language family is historically native. Wikipedia describes Indo-European languages as "native to the north of the Indian subcontinent, most of Europe, and Greater Iran," a huge span before any modern colonial spread. This dimension groups language families that took root in the same broad part of the world.
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1. Wikipedia: Indigenous Languages Of South America
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About 600 indigenous languages are known from South America, Central America, and the Antilles (see List of indigenous languages of South America), although the actual number of languages that existed in the past may have been substantially higher.
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