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Asian languages
There are a wide variety of
languages
spoken thoughout
Asia
, comprising a number of families and unrelated isolate languages.
Sino-Tibetan languages
Chinese
,
Tibetan
,
Burmese[?]
Indo-European languages
are widely spoken in southern and western Asia, as well as Asian Russia:
Indo-Iranian languages
:
Persian
,
Urdu
,
Hindi
,
Kurdish
Slavic languages
:
Russian
Semitic languages
Turkic languages
Austroasiatic languages
The
Altaic languages
are a somewhat disputed grouping. Sometimes included are
Korean
and
Japanese
See also:
East Asian language
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