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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)
Category: Languages of Asia by country. 13 languages. ... Languages of Bahrain (2 C, 7 P) Languages of Bangladesh (8 C, 54 P) Languages of Bhutan (3 C, 36 P)
Unclassified languages of Asia (2 C, 27 P) W. Writing systems of Asia (12 C, 17 P) Pages in category "Languages of Asia"
This article is a list of language families. This list only includes primary language families that are accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics ; for language families that are not accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics, see the article " List of proposed language families ".
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 term Indic languages is also used to refer to these languages, [1] though it may be narrowed to refer only to Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages. [2] The subcontinent is also home to a few language isolates , like Burushaski , Kusunda , Nihali , and Vedda .
[2] [3] [4] Like the Uralic language family, which is named after the Ural Mountains, the group is named after the Altai mountain range in the center of Asia. The core grouping of Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic is sometimes called "Micro-Altaic", with the expanded group including Koreanic and Japonic labelled as "Macro-Altaic" or "Transeurasian".
Indonesians speak about 746 different languages. [187] Javanese has the most users in terms of native speakers (about 80 million). However, the sole official (or so-called "unity language") is Indonesian which has only 30 million L1 speakers (compared to Indonesia 260 million population). The role of Indonesian is important to glue together ...