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.

Contents 1 Central and Northeast Asia 2 East Asian and Southeast Asian languages 3 Southeast Asian languages 4 South Asia 5 Southwest Asia 6 Others 7 See also

Central and Northeast Asia

• Altaic languages
  • Turkic
    • Azeri
    • Kazakh
    • Kyrgyz
    • Tatar
    • Turkish
    • Turkmen
    • Uyghur
    • Uzbek
  • Mongolic
    • Buryat
    • Mongolian
  • Tungusic languages
• Sometimes classified as Altaic languages
  • Japonic
    • Ainu
    • Japanese
    • Ryukyuan
  • Korean language
• Uralic languages
• Yukaghir languages
• Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
• Eskimo-Aleut languages
• Nivkh
• Persian
• Yeniseian languages

East Asian and Southeast Asian languages

• Sino-Tibetan languages:
  • Chinese languages: (Also see: Languages of China)
    • Cantonese
    • Gan
    • Hakka
    • Mandarin
    • Min
    • Wu
    • Xiang

Southeast Asian languages

• Austro-Tai
  • Austric languages
    • Austro-Asiatic languages
      • Khasi
      • Khmer
      • Mon
      • Kuy
      • Nicobarese
      • Vietnamese
      • Munda languages
        • Santali
    • Austronesian languages
      • Formosan languages
        • Atayal
        • Paiwan,
    • Malayo-Polynesian languages
      • Borneo-Philippines languages
        • Cebuano
        • Hiligaynon
        • Ilokano
        • Tagalog
      • Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages
        • Cham
        • Indonesian
        • Javanese
        • Malay
        • Sundanese
        • Tetum
  • Hmong-Mien languages
  • Hmong languages
  • Kradai languages
    • Hkamti
    • Lao
    • Nyaw
    • Thai
  • Tibeto-Burman languages:
    • Bodo
    • Burmese
    • Chin languages
    • Dzongkha
    • Jingpho
    • Karen
    • Kayah
    • Kiranti languages
    • Meitei
    • Mizo
    • Rahkine
    • Tibetan

South Asia

• Indo-European languages
  • Indo-Iranian languages
    • Indo-Aryan languages
      • Northern Zone
        • Dogri
        • Kashmiri
        • Nepali
        • Sindhi
        • Bengali
      • Western Zone
        • Gujarati
        • Punjabi
      • Central Zone
        • Hindi languages
          • Western Hindi
            • Khariboli
            • Haryanvi
            • Kanauji
          • Eastern Hindi
            • Awadhi
            • Chhattisgarhi
          • Rajasthani languages
      • Eastern Zone (Magadhan)
        • Bengali-Assamese
          • Assamese
          • Bengali
          • Chittagonian
          • Sylheti
        • Bihari languages
          • Bhojpuri
          • Maithili
          • Magahi
          • Sadri
        • Oriya Languages
          • Halbi
          • Oriya
      • Southern Zone
        • Dhivehi
        • Konkani
        • Marathi
        • Sinhala
• Dravidian languages
  • Northern languages
    • Kurukh-Malto
      • Kurukh
      • Malto
        • Kumarbhag Paharia
        • Sauria Paharia
    • Brahui
  • Central languages
    • Kolami-Parji
      • Kolami
      • Ollari
    • Telugu-Kui
      • Gondi-Kui
        • Gondi
        • Maria
        • Pardhan
        • Nagarcha

• • Southern Languages
    • • Telugu
    • Tamil-Kannada
      • Kannada
      • Tamil-Malayalam
        • Malayalam
        • Tamil

Southwest Asia

• Afroasiatic
  • Semitic
    • Arabic
    • Aramaic
    • Hebrew
• Indo-European
  • Indo-Iranian
    • Persian

Others

• Andamanese languages (suggested as part of an Indo-Pacific languages group)
• Kusunda language
• Burushaski language

See also

• Dene-Caucasian languages
• East Asian languages
• Eurasiatic languages
• Languages of India

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