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The West Asian Billiards & Snooker Federation regulates the championships related to billiards and snooker, amongst which an annual tournament. The West Asian Games have been held in 1997, 2002 and 2005. The West Asian Football Federation was founded in 2001 and is one of the regional federations of the Asian Football Federation.
From west to east, these include: Hattic, an unclassified language in Anatolia. extinct languages of the Fertile Crescent such as Sumerian and Elamite. extinct languages of South Asia; mainly the unclassified Harappan language; small language families and isolates of the Indian subcontinent: Burushaski, Kusunda, and Nihali.
The major East Asian language families are the Sinitic, Japonic, and Koreanic families. ... Many of the West Asian countries contain expansive deserts, ...
The West Semitic languages significantly reshaped the system. The most substantial changes occurred in the Central Semitic languages (the ancestors of modern Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic). Essentially, the old prefix-conjugated jussive or preterite became a new non-past (or imperfect), while the stative became a new past (or perfect), and the old ...
Chadic languages number between 150 and 190, making Chadic the largest family in Afroasiatic by number of extant languages. [36] The Chadic languages are typically divided into three major branches, East Chadic, Central Chadic, and West Chadic. [37] Most Chadic languages are located in the Chad Basin, with the exception of Hausa. [38]
82 languages. Acèh; ... Surnames of West Asian origin (1 C) W. West Asian Athletics Championships (1 C, 5 P) West Asian diaspora (21 C, 4 P) Pages in category "West ...
8 languages. Аԥсшәа ... South American people of West Asian descent (5 C) A. People of Armenian descent (10 C, 2 P) People of Assyrian descent (10 C, 2 P)
Asia's various modern cultural and religious spheres correspond roughly with the principal centers of civilization. West Asia (or Southwest Asia as Ian Morrison puts it, or sometimes referred to as the Middle East) has their cultural roots in the pioneering civilizations of the Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamia, spawning the Persian, Arab, Ottoman empires, as well as the Abrahamic religions of ...