There is a wide variety of languages spoken throughout Asia, comprising a number of families and some unrelated isolates. Many languages have a long tradition of writing.
South and West Asia
- Indo-European languages, widely spoken in Southern, Western and Central Asia as well as Russia:
- Indo-Iranian languages:
- Indo-Aryan languages: Sanskrit, Pali, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Nepali, Sinhalese, Assamese, Punjabi, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Oriya, Marathi, Bihari, Gujarati
- Iranian languages: Persian, Kurdish, Pashto, Tajik, Baluchi
- Hellenic languages: Greek
- Armenian language
- Germanic languages: English, German, Yiddish
- Slavic languages: Russian
Central and Northeast Asia
Ural-Altaic languages (now doubted to be a genetic (linguistics) grouping)
- Sino-Tibetan languages:
- Chinese languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Gan, Wu, Min, Xiang
- Tibeto-Burman languages: Tibetan, Burmese, (and in South Asia) Nepal Bhasa, Mizo, Kiranti languages
The Austric languages is a hypothesised language family grouping the Austronesian languages with the Austro-Asiatic languages
- Austronesian languages:
- Atayal, Cebuano, Cham, Ilokano, Indonesian, Javanese, Malay, Paiwan, Sundanese, Tagalog, Tetum
- Austro-Asiatic languages
See also
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