Sprachraum

The Arabic Sprachraum is roughly co-extensive with a geographical continuum stretching from the Arabian peninsula and the lands adjoining the Fertile Crescent to Morocco and from S.E. Anatolia to Sudan.

a. 2011, Alexander Borg, Towards a history and typology of color categorization in colloquial Arabic in 2011, Robert E. Maclaury, Galina V. Paramei, Don Dedrick, Anthropology of Color, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 263

[…]; in addition, there is an area along the southeastern border of the Dutch Sprachraum that exhibited the same peculiarity (ibid. pp. 12–13).

2013, Don Ringe, Joseph F. Eska, Historical Linguistics: Toward a Twenty-First Century Reintegration, Cambridge University Press, pages 100–101

As one works with different categories of patients, one discovers that each of them can be described in terms of the Sprachraum, the language space they have mastered and use in order to communicate with us, appeal to us, struggle with us, oppose us, resist us, and search for attachment of which they may well be afraid and must avoid.

1988, Achim Eschbach, Karl Bühler’s Theory of Language, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pages 6–7

Many patients have very little Sprachraum, very little capacity for the use of language to expresss ^([sic]) their thoughts or perhaps to disguise their thoughts.

1989, Rudol Ekstein, The Language of Psychotherapy, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 280