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.
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[edit] South and West Asia
- Burushaski language
- Dravidian languages:
- Indo-European languages, widely spoken in Southern, Western and Central Asia as well as Russia:
- Kusunda language (recently suggested as part of Indo-Pacific languages)
- Nihali language
- Semitic languages:
[edit] Central and Northeast Asia
Ural-Altaic languages (now doubted to be a genetic grouping)
- Uralic languages
- The Altaic languages include the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages. Some also include Korean and the Japonic languages; on the other hand there are some who argue Altaic is not a genetic group at all.
- Turkic languages:
- Mongolic languages
- [Buryat language|Buryat]], Mongolian
- Japonic languages
- Korean languages
[edit] Paleosiberian languages
[edit] East and Southeast Asian languages
The Austric languages is a hypothesised language family grouping the Austronesian languages with the Austro-Asiatic languages
- Andamanese languages (suggested as part of an Indo-Pacific languages group)
- Singlish, Singaporean English
[edit] See also
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