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• 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 languagesThe Turkic languages are a group of closely related languages that are spoken by a variety of people distributed across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China. The Turkic languages are considered by some linguists to be part of the A
• Tai-Kadai languagesThe Tai-Kadai languages are a language family found in Southeast Asia and southern China. They were formerly considered to be part of the Sino-Tibetan family, but are now classified independently as the Tai-Kadai family. They may be related to the Austron
• Austroasiatic languagesThe Austroasiatic languages are a large language family of Southeast Asia and India. The name comes from the Greek word for South Asia. Austroasiatic languages have a disjunct distribution across India and Southeast Asia, separated by regions where other
• The Altaic languagesAltaic is a putative language family which would include 60 languages spoken by about 250 million people, mostly in and around central Asia. The relationships among these languages remain a matter of debate among historical linguists, and the existence of are a somewhat disputed grouping. Sometimes included are KoreanThe Korean language is the most widely used language in Korea, and is the official language of both South and North Korea. The language is also spoken widely in neighbouring Yanbian, China. Worldwide, there are around 78 million Korean speakers, including and JapaneseThe Japanese language is a spoken and written language used mainly in Japan. The Japanese name for the language is Nihongo . History and classification Historical linguists do not all agree about the origin of the Japanese language; there are several comp

See also: East Asian languageEast Asian languages are languages particularly identified with extensive employment of Chinese characters instead of, for example, the Roman alphabet. They usually include: Chinese Japanese Korean See CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) for an extensive disc