Asian languages edit extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (using Wikipedia Reflection Script)

There is a wide variety of languages spoken throughout Asia, comprising a number of families and some unrelated isolates. Many languages have a long tradition of writing.

Central and Northeast Asia

Altaic languages (now doubted to be a genetic grouping)

• Uralic languages
• The Altaic languages include the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages. Some also include Korean and the Japonic languages; on the other hand there are some who argue Altaic is not a genetic group at all.
  • Turkic languages:
    • Azeri, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Uyghur, Uzbek
  • Mongolic languages
    • Buryat, Mongolian

Paleosiberian languages

• Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
• Eskimo-Aleut languages
• Yukaghir languages
• Nivkh
• Yeniseian languages

East Asian languages

• Southeast Asia, Greater China, the Pacific, Madagascar, and North East India
  • Austro-Tai
    • Austric languages
      • Austro-Asiatic languages
        • Khasi, Khmer, Mon, Kuy, Nicobarese, Vietnamese, Munda languages
      • Austronesian languages
        • Formosan languages
          • Atayal, Paiwan,
        • Malayo-Polynesian languages
          • Borneo-Philippines languages
            • Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Ilokano, Tagalog
          • Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages
            • Cham, Indonesian, Javanese, Malay, Sundanese, Tetum
    • Hmong-Mien languages
    • Tai-Kadai languages
      • Hkamti, Lao, Thai
  • Sino-Tibetan languages:
    • Chinese languages: Cantonese, Gan, Hakka, Mandarin, Min, Wu, Xiang
    • Tibeto-Burman languages: Burmese, Kiranti languages, Mizo, Nepal Bhasa, Tibetan

• Japan and Korea
  • Buyeo
    • Korean
    • Japonic
      • Japanese, Ryukyuan

Others

• Andamanese languages (suggested as part of an Indo-Pacific languages group)
• Ainu
• Singlish, Singaporean English

See also

• East Asian languages
• Languages of India