Asian languages
There are a wide variety of
languages spoken throughout
Asia, comprising a number of families and unrelated isolate languages.
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Sino-Tibetan languages**
Chinese,
Tibetan,
Burmese,
Nepal Bhasa*
Indo-European languages are widely spoken in southern and western Asia, as well as Asian Russia:
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Indo-Iranian languages:
Persian,
Urdu,
Hindi,
Kurdish**
Slavic languages:
Russian*
Austronesian languages:
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Malay,
Indonesian,
Filipino,
Tetum,
Javanese*
Semitic languages*
Turkic languages**
Mongolian language*
Tai-Kadai languages*
Austroasiatic languages*
Eskimo-Aleut languages*
Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages*
Uralic languages*
Dravidian languages*The
Altaic languages are a somewhat disputed grouping. Sometimes included are
Korean and
Japanese and the
Uralic languages.
A number of isolated languages - languages with no demonstrable links to other tongues - are also spoken in Asia:
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Yukaghir languages*
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