Asian languages

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There are a wide variety of languages spoken throughout Asia, comprising a number of families and unrelated isolate languages.

• Sino-Tibetan languages
  • Chinese, Tibetan, Burmese
• Indo-European languages are widely spoken in southern and western Asia, as well as Asian Russia:
  • Indo-Iranian languages: Persian, Urdu, Hindi, Kurdish
  • Slavic languages: Russian
• 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:

• Yukaghir languages
• Nivkh

See also: East Asian languages

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