Editing Sprachbund (section)

===Others===
* [[Sumerian language|Sumerian]] and [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] in the 3rd millennium BC<ref>{{cite book
| title = Syntactic Change in Akkadian: The Evolution of Sentential Complementation
| first = Guy | last = Deutscher | author-link = Guy Deutscher (linguist)
| publisher = [[Oxford University Press|Oxford University Press US]] | year = 2007
| isbn = 978-0-19-953222-3 | pages = 20–21}}</ref>
* in the [[Ethiopia]]n highlands, [[Ethiopian Language Area]]<ref name="Thomason (2000)"/><ref>{{cite journal
| first = Charles | last = Ferguson | author-link = Charles A. Ferguson
| title = The Ethiopian Language Area
| journal = The Journal of Ethiopian Studies | year = 1970 | volume = 8 | issue = 2 | pages = 67–80
}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
| first = Charles | last = Ferguson
| chapter = The Ethiopian Language Area | pages = 63–76
| chapter-url = http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED056566.pdf
| title = Language in Ethiopia
| editor-first1 = M. L. | editor-last1 = Bender | editor-link1 = Lionel Bender (linguist)
| editor-first2 = J. D. | editor-last2 = Bowen
| editor-first3 = R. L. | editor-last3 = Cooper
| editor-first4 = C. A. | editor-last4 = Ferguson
| publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 1976 | isbn = 978-0-19-436102-6
}}</ref>
* [[Shimaore]] and [[Kibushi]] on the Comorian island of [[Mayotte]].{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
* in the [[Sepik River]] basin of [[New Guinea]]<ref name="Thomason (2000)"/>
* in the [[Baltics]] (northeast Europe) {{citation needed|date=November 2020}}
* [[Languages of the Caucasus|in the Caucasus]],<ref name="Chirikba"/> though this is disputed<ref name="Tuite"/>
*the [[Gilaki language|Gilaki]] and [[Mazanderani language|Mazandarani]] languages with [[Kartvelian languages|South Caucasian languages]]<ref>{{Cite journal|doi = 10.1016/j.cub.2006.02.021|title = Concomitant Replacement of Language and mtDNA in South Caspian Populations of Iran|year = 2006|last1 = Nasidze|first1 = Ivan|last2 = Quinque|first2 = Dominique|last3 = Rahmani|first3 = Manijeh|last4 = Alemohamad|first4 = Seyed Ali|last5 = Stoneking|first5 = Mark|journal = Current Biology|volume = 16|issue = 7|pages = 668–673|pmid = 16581511|s2cid = 7883334|doi-access = free| bibcode=2006CBio...16..668N }}</ref>
* several [[linguistic areas of the Americas]], including:
** [[Mesoamerican language area|Mesoamerican linguistic area]]<ref>{{cite journal
| doi= 10.2307/415477
| title= Meso-America as a Linguistic Area
| first1 = Lyle | last1 = Campbell | first2 = Terrence | last2 = Kaufman | first3 = Thomas C. | last3 = Smith-Stark
| journal = Language | volume = 62 | issue = 3 | year = 1986 | pages = 530–570
| jstor= 415477 }}</ref>
** [[Pueblo linguistic area]]{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
** [[Pacific Northwest languages|Northwest Coast linguistic area]]<ref name="Thomason (2000)"/>
* [[Austronesian languages|Austronesian]] and [[non-Austronesian languages|Papuan languages]] spoken in eastern [[Indonesia]] and [[East Timor]]<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Klamer | first1 = Marian | first2 = Ger | last2 = Reesink | first3 = Miriam | last3 = van Staden | contribution = East Nusantara as a linguistic area | editor-first= Pieter | editor-last = Muysken | year = 2008 | title = From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics | publisher = John Benjamins | pages = 95–149 | isbn = 978-90-272-3100-0 }}</ref><ref>Schapper, Antoinette. [https://journals.openedition.org/archipel/371 "Wallacea, a linguistic area"]. ''Archipel. Études interdisciplinaires sur le monde insulindien'' 90 (2015): 99–151.</ref>
* East [[Anatolia]]—proposed, though currently uncertain<ref>{{cite book
|last=Haig|first=Geoffrey
|chapter=East Anatolia as a linguistic area? Conceptual and empirical issues
|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IB3xBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA13
|pages=13–31
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IB3xBwAAQBAJ
|title=Bamberger Orientstudien|year=2014|editor1-first=Lale|editor1-last=Behzadi
|editor2-first=Patrick|editor2-last=Franke
|editor3-first=Geoffrey|editor3-last=Haig
|editor4-first=Christoph|editor4-last=Herzog
|editor5-first=Birgitt|editor5-last=Hoffmann
|editor6-first=Lorenz|editor6-last=Korn
|editor7-first=Susanne|editor7-last=Talabardon
|isbn=978-3-86309-286-3
|publisher=University of Bamberg Press
}}</ref>