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Potential language isolates and independent language families in Arunachal: Digaro, Hrusish (including the Miji languages [1]), Midzu, Puroik, Siangic, and Kho-Bwa. The two Andamanese language families: Great Andamanese and Ongan. Language isolates and languages with isolate substrata of Southeast Asia: Kenaboi, Enggano, and the Philippine ...
The Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area is a sprachbund including languages of the Sino-Tibetan, Hmong–Mien (or Miao–Yao), Kra–Dai, Austronesian and Austroasiatic families spoken in an area stretching from Thailand to China. [1] Neighbouring languages across these families, though presumed unrelated, often have similar typological ...
Asia is home to hundreds of languages comprising several families and some unrelated isolates. The most spoken language families on the continent include Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Japonic, Dravidian, Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Turkic, Sino-Tibetan, Kra–Dai and Koreanic. Many languages of Asia, such as Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, Tamil or ...
Languages of Southeast Asia. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Languages of Asia. It includes languages that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Languages of Southeast Asia.
A full genomic study by Lipson et al. (2018) identified a characteristic lineage that can be associated with the spread of Austroasiatic languages in Southeast Asia and which can be traced back to remains of Neolithic farmers from Mán Bạc (c. 2000 BCE) in the Red River Delta in northern Vietnam, and to closely related Ban Chiang and Vat ...
Languages of East Asia. 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.
The Austronesian languages (/ ˌ ɔː s t r ə ˈ n iː ʒ ən / AW-strə-NEE-zhən) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples). [1] They are spoken by about 328 million people (4.4% of the ...
Others identified related languages in the highlands of Southeast Asia and south-west China. The name "Tibeto-Burman" was first applied to this group in 1856 by James Logan , who added Karen in 1858.