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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Central and North Asian languages
- Altaic languages
- Sometimes classified as Altaic languages
- Uralic languages
- Yukaghir languages
- Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
- Eskimo-Aleut languages
- Nivkh
- Persian
- Yeniseian languages
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East Asian
- Sino-Tibetan languages:
- Chinese languages: (Also see: Languages of China)
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Southeast Asian languages
- Austro-Tai
- Dravidian languages
- Sino-Tibetan languages
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South Asia
- Indo-European languages
- Indo-Iranian languages
- Indo-Aryan languages
- Northern Zone
- Western Zone
- Central Zone
- Eastern Zone (Magadhan)
- Southern Zone
- Indo-Aryan languages
- Indo-Iranian languages
- Dravidian languages
- Northern languages
- Kurukh-Malto
- Brahui
- Central languages
- Northern languages
The above are the four major South Indian languages, however due its to close historic relationship and intermingling of people there has been a plethora of language mixtures which have evolved into new languages with peculiar grammar features such as:
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Southwest Asia
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Others
- Andamanese languages (suggested as part of an Indo-Pacific languages group)
- Kusunda language
- Burushaski language
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See also
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