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:
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
Germanic languages: English
Slavic languages: Russian
Sino-Tibetan languages:
Chinese language: Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka
Tibeto-Burman languages: Tibetan, Burmese, Nepal Bhasa, Mizo
Semitic languages:
Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Aramaic
Dravidian languages:
Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Tulu
Austronesian languages:
Atayal, Cebuano, Cham, Ilokano, Indonesian, Javanese, Malay, Paiwan, Sundanese, Tagalog, Tetum
Austro-Asiatic languages
Vietnamese, Khmer, Mon, Khasi, Nicobarese, Munda
Turkic languages:
Turkish, Azeri, Turkmen, Tatar, Uzbek, Kazakh, Uyghur
Mongolic languages
Mongolian, Buryat
Japonic languages
Japanese, Ryukyuan
Tai-Kadai languages
Thai, Hkamti, Lao
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:
Burushaski language
Nihali language
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