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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Chinese becomes popular in Monaco

People Daily 26 Mar 2019

However, cultural ties between the two countries have been long established, with Chinese language becoming a popular skill in Monaco ... Chinese language is nothing new to the country ... Victor Churchill from Albert I High School has studied Chinese for four years, and his whole family are studying the Asian language....

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My parents moved to the U.S. for a better life, but I’m returning to Asia for job opportunities

Fast Company 26 Mar 2019

... hometown or get reacquainted with their mother tongue. The nature of Tsuei’s job gave her the flexibility to live abroad, but her move to Taipei was more rooted in her desire to immerse her daughter in Asian culture and expose her to the Mandarin language....

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Mountain Family column: April is National Minority Health Month

Post Independent 25 Mar 2019

As part of this effort, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (National Institutes of Health) offers information about health conditions in Spanish here and a variety of other languages, including Asian languages, here....

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COLUMN: GHALIB’S ‘UNCREATED’ GARDEN

Dawn 24 Mar 2019

“Hoon garmi-i-nishat-i-tasavvur se naghma sanj/ Main andalib-i-gulshan-i-na afridah hoon” ... The anqa is such a being ... And the word is anqa ... This is an extremely erudite theme, expressed in near perfect language ... The columnist is associate professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia ... ....

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Cindy Yang helped Chinese tech stars get $50K photos with Trump. Who paid?

Herald Mail 22 Mar 2019

In Chinese-language social media posts and news accounts, both men were listed as guests of Yang’s political group, the Washington, D.C.-based National Committee of Asian-American Republicans ... In addition to the tech executives, Yang’s guest list for the Asian GOP group attending ......

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Book About Practical Blockchain Use To Be Published In Russia

Blockspoint 22 Mar 2019

The book was created by two authors who work with DLT in various fields ... “Blockchain in practice” will include a comprehensive analysis of how distributed ledger has been evolving since 2008 ... First published in 2016, the work of a Canadian scientist Don Tapscott was translated into 15 languages and became a bestseller in several Asian countries ... .......

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Opinion: Mich. needs to record hate and bias incidents

Detroit news 22 Mar 2019

Too often our department has heard from immigrants, people with disabilities, LGBT community members, Muslims, Arabs, Middle Easterners, South Asians and people with limited language proficiency that they do not feel safe reporting such incidents and they fear retaliation....

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Cindy Yang helped Chinese tech stars get $50K photos with Trump. Who donated the money?

The Island Packet 21 Mar 2019

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Nadhi Thekkek, Rupy C. Tut explore impact of British Indian partition through traditional Indian art

The Daily Californian 21 Mar 2019

The show features music in various South Asian languages as well, capturing the background of Tut’s childhood in India, where no one language was dominant ... Poring through archives of South Asian history and gathering oral histories from Tut’s family, they did the work, the research, to back up every aspect of the show....

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Addressing Health Disparities in End-of-Life Care Among Minority Populations in New Jersey

Market Watch 21 Mar 2019

He added, "End-of-life care decisions are difficult for many families, but for patients in the African-American, Hispanic, and Asian communities, there are additional challenges such as lack of access to information, language barriers, and cultural differences that can negatively impact the care these patients receive at the end of life....

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I lived in Japan for 20 years and saw business there change in 7 big ways that we'd be remiss to ignore

The Times of India 21 Mar 2019

I didn't speak the language and while I'd lived in other Asian countries before, this was the first one I was entering alone ... So much so that restaurants have started offering menus in different languages to cater to their clientele ... visitors by 2020.The official business language....

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I’ve had better days: Daley

The Daily Telegraph Australia 20 Mar 2019

March 20, 2019. NSW Opposition Leader Michael Daley speaks at Alexandria Park in Sydney following backlash over comments he made about Asian immigrants taking local jobs. Daley says he could have used better language and says he has "offered an unqualified apology". "I've had better days, and I take responsibility for that," he says....

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U.S. misled allies about nuclear export

Information Clearing House 20 Mar 2019

03/20/05 "Washington Post" - - In an effort to increase pressure on North Korea, the Bush administration told its Asian allies in ... During the first stop on her Asian tour, Rice used noticeably softer language on North Korea, telling a Tokyo audience that the U.S....