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The languages of East Asia belong to several distinct language families, with many common features attributed to interaction.In the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area, Chinese varieties and languages of southeast Asia share many areal features, tending to be analytic languages with similar syllable and tone structure.
He concludes Proto-East Asian was a disyllabic (CVCVC) language spoken from 6,500 to 6,000 BCE by Peiligang culture and Cishan culture millet farmers on the North China Plain (specifically the Han River, Wei River, and central Yellow River areas).
unclassified languages in Southeast Asia: Kenaboi. the difficult to classify Arunachal languages: Digaro, Hrusish (including the Miji languages [3]), Midzu, Puroik, Siangic, and Kho-Bwa. Hmong–Mien (Miao–Yao) scattered across southern China and Southeast Asia; a few "Papuan" (Non-Austronesian) families of the central and eastern Malay ...
The major East Asian language families that form the traditional linguistic core of East Asia are the Sinitic, [b] Japonic, and Koreanic families. [14] [15] [16] Other language families include the Tibeto-Burman, Ainu languages, Mongolic, Tungusic, Turkic, Hmong-Mien, Tai–Kadai, Austronesian, and Austroasiatic.
Pages in category "Languages of East Asia" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Dené–Caucasian proposal. Several macrofamily schemes have been proposed for linking multiple language families of Southeast Asia. None of these proposals have been accepted by mainstream comparative linguistics, though research into higher-level relationships among these languages has gained some renewed scholarly interest over the last three decades; the various hypotheses are still ...
The Austroasiatic languages [note 1] (/ ˌ ɒ s t r oʊ. eɪ ʒ i ˈ æ t ɪ k, ˌ ɔː-/ OSS-troh-ay-zhee-AT-ik, AWSS-) are a large language family spoken throughout Mainland Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia. These languages are natively spoken by the majority of the population in Vietnam and Cambodia, and by minority populations ...
This article is a list of language ... Eastern Jebel: 4 104,600 Africa: ... Europe, the Americas, Francophone Africa, parts of Asia: Over 50 British Sign: United ...