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
- Burushaski language
- Dravidian languages:
- Indo-European languages, widely spoken in Southern, Western and Central Asia as well as Russia:
- Indo-Iranian languages:
- Indo-Aryan languages: Assamese, Bengali, Bihari, Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Pali, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sinhalese, Sindhi, Urdu
- Iranian languages: Baluchi, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Tajik
- Hellenic languages: Greek
- Armenian language
- Germanic languages: English, German, Yiddish
- Romance languages: French, Portuguese
- Slavic languages: Russian
- Kusunda language (recently suggested as part of Indo-Pacific languages)
- Nihali language
- Semitic languages:
Central and Northeast Asia
Ural-Altaic languages (now doubted to be a genetic grouping)
- Sino-Tibetan languages:
- Chinese languages: Cantonese, Gan, Hakka, Mandarin, Min, Wu, Xiang
- Tibeto-Burman languages: Burmese, Kiranti languages, Mizo, Nepal Bhasa, Tibetan
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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