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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VIDEO: Space Coast Sports Hall of Fame Golfer Kerry Sweeney Preparing for Asian Tour

Space Coast Daily 19 Jan 2019

Space Coast Sports Hall of Fame golfer Kerry Sweeney is getting ready to play in the Asian Tour beginning in February. BREVARD COUNTY • MELBOURNE, FLORIDA – Space Coast Sports Hall of Fame golfer Kerry Sweeney is getting ready to play in the Asian Tour beginning in February ... He will now try to win in the Asian Tour....

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Thaipongal is to worship Sun god says Champika

Asian Tribune 18 Jan 2019

Editor of Asian Tribune pointed out, "Since we talk about elections, we cannot avoid thinking that Minister Ranawaka who is with us here, can also play a bigger leadership role in Sri Lanka's future ... in Thamil language and aims to launch its online radio as well. - Asian Tribune -....

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How Raheem Sterling Is Shining A Spotlight On Modern Racism

Huffington Post 18 Jan 2019

We might not tolerate racist language or blatant discrimination against BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) people in the same way that we used to, but at all levels of football, as well as in wider society, racism has evolved to persist in more covert, subtle ways ... However, the problem is not just in coaching roles, but in all leadership roles....

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Hong Kong Superstar Josie Ho Presents "Best Foreign Language Film" to Director Alfonso Cuar�n at ...

Winston-Salem Journal 17 Jan 2019

Josie Ho was at the Critics' Choice Awards to present the "Best Foreign Language Film" award to the major award-winner of the night, Alfonso Cuar�n, for his work as director of the film "Roma ." ... I love that I got to present one of my artistic heroes with the Best Foreign Language Film Award ."....

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Hong Kong Superstar Josie Ho Presents "Best Foreign Language Film" to Director Alfonso Cuar�n at The 24th Annual Critics' Choice Awards

Market Watch 17 Jan 2019

Josie Ho was at the Critics' Choice Awards to present the "Best Foreign Language Film" award to the major award-winner of the night, Alfonso Cuarón, for his work as director of the film "Roma." ... I love that I got to present one of my artistic heroes with the Best Foreign Language Film Award."....

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Five things to know about the deceptive anti-abortion poll released ahead of the March for Life

Media Matters 17 Jan 2019

SFLA’s poll, with its leading language and anti-choice misinformation, appears to be another attempt to drive inaccurate media coverage ... Given that it included such stigmatizing and inaccurate language, SFLA’s poll can hardly be considered representative of a wider audience’s support for Roe ....

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Wall Street expects Netflix to dominate the streaming war in 2019 even after its biggest price hike

Business Insider 16 Jan 2019

... "Emerging markets in Latam & Asia (e.g., India) are the bright spots on local language content push," UBS continued. Netflix announced 17 new Asian original programs in November in an effort to break through, since the company had yet to exceed 2 million subscribers in any Asian market ... Netflix will rely less on licensing agreements ... ....

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Taiwan language exchange program bears fruit in the Philippines

Inquirer 16 Jan 2019

2017 to promote quality Chinese language education in the Southeast Asian country, while at the same time offering courses to train local ......

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A thrilling satire of US foreign policy

Gulf News 16 Jan 2019

Red Birds. By Mohammed Hanif, Bloomsbury, 304 pages, $16. “When I look up, I see people cashing in ... “The atrocities they have committed with the language,” he marvels ... It is the photo-negative of the many south Asian novels that appear each year, all succumbing to the well-worn trope of melancholy eastern-sounding language paired with western realism ... ....

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Boost school recruitment with more languages

Taipei Times 15 Jan 2019

... as Southeast Asian students are not native English-language speakers ... Furthermore, if Taiwanese children who do not have an immigrant parent also studied Southeast Asian languages and later became teachers, Taiwan would be even better placed to attract students from the region....

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Sri Lanka's latest news service Thamillanka launched amid Thaipongal dawn

Asian Tribune 15 Jan 2019

The news service' web portal www.thamillanka.lk publishes latest updates on Lankan affairs in Thamil language ... He added, "This is not a propaganda tool for any political or ethnic ideology but a window to Sri Lanka's past, present and future in Thamil language." ... - Asian Tribune - ....

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Providers Walk ‘Fine Line’ Between Informing And Scaring Immigrant Patients

The Baytown Sun 15 Jan 2019

At Asian Health Services, a clinic group that serves Alameda County, Calif., staff members pass out fact sheets about the proposed changes, provide updates via their patient newsletter and host workshops where patients can speak to legal experts in several Asian languages....

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Confucianization in family trees

Korea Times 15 Jan 2019

By Mark Peterson. Korea has known Confucianism for over 1,500 years. But Confucianism in Korea was not always the same kind of Confucianism. Social practices changed over time ... Some like to call this "patriarchy." ... Mark Peterson (markpeterson@byu.edu) is professor emeritus of Korean, Asian and Near Eastern languages at Brigham Young University in Utah . ....