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* [[Balkan sprachbund|Balkans Sprachbund]]: Contact between AD 800 and AD 170 lead to changes in [[phonology]], morphology, [[syntax]], and [[lexicon]] of [[Albanian language|Albanian,]] [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian,]] [[Romanian language|Romanian,]] and [[Greek language|Greek.]] The Balkans Sprachbund is an extreme case of language convergence.<ref name=":3" />
* [[Arnhem Land]], Australia: [[Morphosyntactic]] convergence and massive lexical diffusion in the Yuulgnu langaugeslanguages Ritharngnu, Dhayʔyi, and others and the “Prefixing” languages Ngandi, Nunggubuyu, and others, though long periods of separation helped to preserve language boundaries.<ref name=":3" />
* [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and [[Quechuan languages|Quechua:]] Phonological convergence of the palatal /l/ in Spanish and Quechua. Northern variants of Ecuadorian Spanish and Quechua include the innovative /ž/ while southern variants of both languages maintain the /l̃/ pronunciation.<ref name=":4" />
* [[Chinese language|Chinese]], [[Thai language|Thai]], and [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese:]] Form a linguistic area based on the areal feature of [[Phoneme|phonemic]] tone distinctions.<ref name=":0" />