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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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Radio: Remembering a radio stalwart who altered the airwaves in Southern California and beyond
Press Telegram 15 Oct 2019
As a fan of RKO Radio and its former owned and operated radio station KHJ (930 AM), I had, of course, heard of Dwight Case ... It still exists today. Radio Ink, which you can find at radioink.com ... Similarly, he saw the potential of Asian-language programming and launched — along with partner George Fritzinger — KAZN (1300 AM) back in 1988 ... “No question ... ....
photo: AP / Lee Jin-man
Sulli: K-pop star found dead at 25
WPTV 14 Oct 2019
K-pop star Sulli, formerly of the band f(x), has been found dead at her home ... Investigations are ongoing ... Many of its stars -- known as idols -- train for years, honing their singing, dancing and acting skills, while also learning other Asian languages, before they are even allowed to debut their first song ... ....
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Henry Herald
14 Oct 2019
Sulli, 25-year-old K-pop star, found dead at home in Seongnam, South Korea
Henry Herald
14 Oct 2019
K-pop star Sulli, formerly of the band f(x), has been found dead at her home ... Investigations are ongoing ... Many of its stars -- known as idols -- train for years, honing their singing, dancing and acting skills, while also learning other Asian languages, before they are even allowed to debut their first song ... CNN's Jake Kwon contributed to this story. ....
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JIM ROGERS: Here's the mistake I made in 1984
Business Insider 14 Oct 2019
Jim Rogers is one of the world’s most successful investors ... If you look at the world, and you look at languages, and you look at economies… if you were to try to target those parts of the world that in 15 years, 20 years will have taken a bigger step than other parts of the world, where would you go? ... Learn at least one Asian language ... ....
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25-year-old K-pop star found dead at home in South Korea
The Mercury News 14 Oct 2019
By Jack Guy and Sophie Jeong . CNN. K-pop star Sulli, formerly of the band f(x), has been found dead at her home ... Many of its stars — known as idols — train for years, honing their singing, dancing and acting skills, while also learning other Asian languages, before they are even allowed to debut their first song ... Related Articles ... ....
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Teaching sijo in America
Korea Times 13 Oct 2019
By Mark Peterson. I wrote last time about the Sejong Cultural Society based in Chicago and their annual fundraiser ... The sijo is the format, a three-line poem, but the language is English ... Here are some examples ... 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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Denver Post listening tour: Aurora, home to powerful institutions, wants to harness its diversity
Denver Post 13 Oct 2019
I think we need to make a statement.” ... According to census estimates, the city is a “majority minority” community where less than 50% of the population is white, nearly 30% is Latino, about 16% is black and 5% is of Asian descent. Aurora’s residents include large immigrant communities, speaking dozens of languages ... Related Articles ... ....
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Test scores again rise by inches as student achievement gap yawns
The Daily Democrat 12 Oct 2019
... in reading and 28% in math) far underperformed their white and Asian peers. More than 65% of California’s white students passed the Smarter Balanced reading portion, and 54.23% passed math, while nearly 77% of Asian students were proficient in language arts and 74.37% passed math....
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Study: 92% of L.I. teachers are white
LI Herald 10 Oct 2019
Some 80,000 students never have an African-American, Latino or Asian teacher in class ... Lillian Hsiao, who is Asian-American and an English as a New Language teacher at Great Neck South High School, said a job interviewer once told her, “You speak English so well, without an accent.” Hsiao was born in the U.S....
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First move-ins at senior community designed for South Asians
Chicago Business 09 Oct 2019
The first buyers of town homes in a Hanover Park development focused on South Asian senior citizens, the first of its kind in the country, will move in this month, several months after the originally planned spring start ... Most staff will be bilingual, speaking English and a South Asian language ... Gupta said all the buyers so far have been South Asian....
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New Delhi hosts launch of Ji Xianlin biography
China Daily 09 Oct 2019
Deepak, a professor at JNU's Center of Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies in the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, translated the book into both languages. While the Hindi version was released by Indian publisher Prakashan Sansthan, the English-language biography was published by the Pentagon Press....
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