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A manuscript from the early 1800s from central Sumatra, in Batak Toba language, one of many languages from Indonesia. Southeast Asia uses various non-Latin-based writing systems. The writing systems below are listed by language family.
Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name. Other informative or qualifying ...
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, Persian, Sanskrit, Arabic, Tamil or Telugu, have a long history as a written language.
Category: Languages of Asia by country. 13 languages. ... Languages of Brunei (3 C, 15 P) C. Languages of Cambodia (2 C, 21 P) Languages of China (28 C, 93 P)
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... 15 88 1.24 53,357,924 675,417 8,000
Encodings of Asian languages (4 C, 22 P) Endangered languages of Asia (6 C, 17 P) ... Language isolates of Asia (6 C, 15 P) Languages of Kurdistan (2 C, 27 P) M.
Many East Asian scripts can be written horizontally or vertically. Chinese characters, Korean hangul, and Japanese kana may be oriented along either axis, as they consist mainly of disconnected logographic or syllabic units, each occupying a square block of space, thus allowing for flexibility for which direction texts can be written, be it horizontally from left-to-right, horizontally from ...
For languages written in other writing systems, write "Romanization - native script (language)", for example "Argentine - אַרגענטינע (Yiddish)", and alphabetize it in the list by the Romanized form. Due to its size, this list has been split into four parts: List of country names in various languages (A–C)