Fig. 5: Fog-cloud colexification in tropical climates. | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Fig. 5: Fog-cloud colexification in tropical climates.

From: Elevation and fog-cloud similarity in Tibeto-Burman languages

Fig. 5

46 languages/dialects from CLICS (in blue), and 14 languages in Urban (2023) (in purple), spoken lower than the elevation of 500 m, are located in the tropical regions, namely East Nusa Tenggara (Indonesia), Timor-Leste (or East Timor), Papua New Guinea, and the Amazon rainforest ecoregions.

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