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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)
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world. This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect. For example, Arabic is sometimes considered a single language centred on Modern Standard Arabic, other authors consider its mutually ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Languages of the World lists over 7,100 spoken and signed languages. ... Languages of Asia. East Asian languages;
This is a list of languages by number of native speakers. Current distribution of human language families. All such rankings of human languages ranked by their number of native speakers should be used with caution, because it is not possible to devise a coherent set of linguistic criteria for distinguishing languages in a dialect continuum. [1]
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [ 1 ] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.
The city of Toronto is one of the most multilingual cities in the world. [88] It is the home to over a dozen daily media outlets of different languages, including the Italian daily Corriere Canadese [89] and the Chinese daily Sing Tao. [90] Greenland: Greenlandic is the official language.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikibooks; ... Encodings of Asian languages (4 C, 22 P) Endangered languages of Asia (6 C, 17 P)