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The Indo-European languages are primarily represented in Asia by the Indo-Iranian branch, with its two main subgroups: Indo-Aryan and Indo-Iranian. Indo-Aryan languages are mainly spoken in South Asia. Examples include languages such as Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Bengali, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Marathi, Rajasthani, Gujarati, Sylheti)
Thirteen languages account for more than 1% of Indian population each, and between themselves for over 95%; all of them are the "scheduled languages of the Constitution". Scheduled languages spoken by less than 1% of Indians are Santali (0.64%), Meitei (Manipuri) (0.14%), Bodo (0.13%), Dogri (0.01%, spoken in Jammu and Kashmir).
Most linguists believe that Austroasiatic languages once ranged continuously across southeast Asia and that their scattered distribution today is the result of the subsequent arrival of other language groups. [1] One of these groups were the Tai–Kadai languages such as Thai, Lao and Shan. These languages were originally spoken in southern ...
Indigenous languages of Asia (8 C, 1 P) L. Language isolates of Asia (6 C, 15 P) Languages of Kurdistan (2 C, 27 P) M. Mashriqi Arabic (4 C, 18 P) P. Peninsular ...
Category: Languages of Asia by country. 13 languages. ... Languages of Oman (1 C, 18 P) P. Languages of Pakistan (19 C, 32 P) Languages of the State of Palestine (3 C ...
According to Michael D. Larish, the languages of Southeast and East Asia descended from one proto-language (which he calls "Proto-Asian"). Japonic is grouped together with Koreanic as one branch of the Proto-Asian family. The other branch consists of the Austronesian, Austroasiatic, Kra-Dai, Hmong-Mien and Sino-Tibetan languages. [21] [22]
The majority of Albanians [clarification needed] are multilingual, speaking more than 3 languages, which is due to the large number of Albanian immigrants in Europe and elsewhere, as well as political and socio-cultural relations with their neighbours. As a consequence, Albanians are considered one of the most linguistically diverse peoples in ...
[1] [3] This makes it the fifth-largest language family by number of speakers. Major Austronesian languages include Malay (around 250–270 million in Indonesia alone in its own literary standard named "Indonesian"), [4] Javanese, Sundanese, Tagalog (standardized as Filipino [5]), Malagasy and Cebuano. According to some estimates, the family ...