Languages of Asia

There is a wide variety of languages spoken throughout Asia, comprising a number of families and some unrelated isolates. Asian languages usually have a long tradition of writing, but not always.

Language groups

The major families in terms of numbers are Indo-European in South Asia and Sino-Tibetan in East Asia. Several other families are regionally dominant.

Sino-Tibetan

Sino-Tibetan includes Chinese, Tibetan, Burmese, and numerous languages of the Tibetan Plateau, southern China, Burma, and North east India.

Indo-European

The Indo-European family is represented by the Indic branch, which includes Sindhi, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and many other languages of India (Assamese, Bengali etc.), Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives; the Iranian branch, which includes Persian, Pashto, and other languages of Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia; the Slavic branch, which includes Russian in Siberia; Greek around the Black Sea; and Armenian; as well as extinct languages such as Hittite of Anatolia and Tocharian of (Chinese) Turkestan.

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Latest News for: Asian languages

Lion King musical back on stage in Singapore

Xinhua 19 Sep 2018

19 (Xinhua) -- The world renowned Lion King musical is presented here in Singapore, with its Asian and African cultural elements and artful performance to intoxicate the audiences ... Besides delicate performance and exquisite costumes, the show also features Asian-style puppets and African languages, which also contributed to the charm of the musical....

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'Crazy Rich Asians' to release in India on September 21

Yahoo Daily News 19 Sep 2018

New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) After much dilly-dallying and an announcement that "Crazy Rich Asians" will not release in India, the Jon M ... "We are sad to announce that 'Crazy Rich Asians' would not be releasing in India.". Touted to be the first contemporary English language Hollywood movie with an almost all-Asian cast after a long time, "Crazy Rich Asians" is based on the book by Kevin Kwan with the same name....

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Chicago needs Judges of Election with Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu proficiency

News India Times 19 Sep 2018

The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners is encouraging bilingual speakers, including those knowing South Asian languages, to sign up as election judges for the Nov ... Indian-American Director of South Asian Outreach at CBEC, Shobhana Johri Verma, in an email to News India Times, said needs are concentrated on the ......

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New US 'musical diplomat' wows crowds in China

China Daily 19 Sep 2018

"I sang solos in my children's choir way back when I was 6 ... Rhea, who hails from Louisiana, attended the University of Oklahoma, where he studied Chinese language and literature and Asian studies ... Rather creatively, he used music as a method to study the Chinese language. "It was my love of music in general that led me to seek out Chinese music as a study tool in learning the language ... Referring to Ren, Rhea says ... touched," he says ... ....

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Archaeologists unearth 13,000-year-old brewery in Israel

The American Israelite 19 Sep 2018

“Alcohol making and food storage were among the major technological innovations that eventually led to the development of civilizations in the world, and archaeological science is a powerful means to help reveal their origins and decode their contents,” said Li Liu, a professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, in the press release ... ....

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A renewed gas pipeline is a geopolitical game changer

Business Insider 19 Sep 2018

There have already been several articles in the party-controlled Global Times (the English-language version of the Chinese Communist Party’s official newspaper, Renmin Ribao) decrying the irregular character of Central Asian gas imports, stating that Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan failed to deliver contracted gas volumes due to allegedly defective transmission infrastructure....

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Here’s When ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Hits Indian Theatres

Yahoo Daily News 18 Sep 2018

Earlier Warner Brothers had tweeted from their official handle, stating- "We are sad to announce that Crazy Rich Asians would not be releasing in India." This announcement elicited a wave of disappointment as many Indian fans were waiting with bated breath for the first contemporary English-language Hollywood movie with an almost all-Asian cast....

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The story of segregation in Los Angeles was only preserved by its black-owned papers

Quartz 18 Sep 2018

The historic segregation that defines Los Angeles to this day was no cosmic accident or mere twist of fate. And much of what we know now of the deliberate action of white supremacists was documented only by a crusading black press ... Exposing a long-running system ... She called the Eagle ... The Eagle gradually expanded its coverage to include the plight of Native Americans, Asians, Mexicans and Jews, using the same anti-fascist language....

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Knowledge is part of the rip-off economy

The Observer 16 Sep 2018

Michael Mabe and Stephen Lotinga (Letters, 15 September) criticise George Monbiot’s timely critique of the dying racket that is modern academic publishing. Lotinga in particular makes much of the expertise of the hidden workforce in academic publishing ... The quality of editing has collapsed in the process ... Regius professor of south Asian language, culture and society, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh ... ....

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Knowledge is part of the rip-off economy | Letters

The Guardian 16 Sep 2018

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Social media gives sexual abuse victims in China voice to speak out

Aberdeen News 16 Sep 2018

Other Chinese nationals living overseas began posting on various Chinese-language social media sites alleging sexual misconduct by academics ... The latest to face consequences is Xu Gang, associate professor of East Asian studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. On at least two Chinese-language social media sites, Wang publicized his female colleagues’ accusations against Xu’s sexual harassment dating back two decades ... .......

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Memoirs of an Asian Football Casual: hooliganism gave me a way to fit in

The Guardian 16 Sep 2018

He was one of the first Asian hooligans to join Leicester City’s Baby Squad, so called because they looked so young. In 2010, Khan wrote his autobiography, Memoirs of An Asian Football Casual, a fascinating glimpse into a time when the far right was on the march and many politicians were doing their best to sow racial discord ... I ask why he wrote Memoirs of An Asian Casual....

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Why Korea became Confucianized

Korea Times 16 Sep 2018

By Mark Peterson. The process by which Korea came to be the "most-Confucianized" country in the world was a long, drawn-out process that requires careful observation and careful definitions of terms. Confucianism, as an alien ideology, came into Korea from China in the Three Kingdoms Period ... Mark Peterson (markpeterson@byu.edu) is professor emeritus of Korean, Asian and Near Eastern languages at Brigham Young University in Utah . ....

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