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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

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