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Languages of Asia
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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.
- Indo-European languages, widely spoken in Southern, Western and Central Asia as well as Russia:
- Sino-Tibetan languages:
- Semitic languages:
- Dravidian languages:
- Austronesian languages:
- Austro-Asiatic languages
- Vietnamese, Khmer, Mon, Khasi, Nicobarese, Munda
- Turkic languages:
- Mongolic languages
- Japonic languages
- Tai-Kadai languages
- Uralic languages
- Andamanese languages
- Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
- Eskimo-Aleut languages
- Yukaghir languages
- The Buyeo languages are a hypothetical language family which includes Korean and the Japonic languages.
- The Altaic languages are a somewhat disputed grouping including the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages, with Korean and the Japonic languages included by some.
- Another disputed language family, the Ural-Altaic languages, is formed with the addition of Uralic languages to the Altaic languages.
- The Austric languages is a hypothesised language family grouping the Austronesian languages with the Austro-Asiatic languages
A number of isolated languages - languages with no demonstrable links to other tongues - are also spoken in Asia:
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