Figure 1.

Distribution of the primary nature morphemes of currently dominant languages (boundaries are inclusive and indicative) (blue, natura from Latin; green, tabia from Semitic languages; pink, priroda from Slavic; red, zì rán from Chinese; purple, prakṛti from Sanskrit; orange, thammachat from Pāli; dark gray, distinct, original local morphemes; brown, languages in which the general word for nature, such as world or environment, are used; light gray, no data). In many regions, different languages overlap (e.g., pre‐Columbian languages in Americas, which do not have a word), but only the dominant language is represented here for readability reasons, except for Polish, which has 2 words.