- Indo-European Languages , widely spoken in Southern , Western and Central Asia as well as Russia :
- --- Indo-Iranian Languages :
--, Pali , Hindi , Urdu , Bengali , Nepali , Sinhalese , Assamese , Punjabi , Kashmiri , Sindhi , Oriya , Marathi , Bihari , Gujarati
--, Kurdish , Pashto , Tajik , Baluchi
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- Sino-Tibetan Languages :
- ---, Cantonese , Hakka
- ---, Burmese , Nepal Bhasa , Mizo
- Semitic Languages :
- --- Arabic , Hebrew , Syriac , Aramaic
- Dravidian Languages :
- --- Kannada , Malayalam , Tamil , Telugu , Tulu
- Austronesian Languages :
- --- Atayal , Cebuano , Cham , Ilokano , Indonesian , Javanese , Malay , Paiwan , Sundanese , Tagalog , Tetum
- Austro-Asiatic Languages
- --- Vietnamese , Khmer , Mon , Khasi , Nicobarese , Munda
- Turkic Languages :
- --- Turkish , Azeri , Turkmen , Tatar , Uzbek , Kazakh , Uyghur
- Mongolic Languages
- --- Mongolian , Buryat
- Japonic Languages
- --- Japanese , Ryukyuan
- Tai-Kadai Languages
- --- Thai , Hkamti , Lao
- Uralic Languages
- Andamanese Languages
- Chukotko-Kamchatkan Languages
- Eskimo-Aleut Languages
- Yukaghir Languages
- The Buyeo Languages are a hypothetical language family which includes Korean and the Japonic Languages .
- The Altaic Languages are a somewhat disputed grouping including the Turkic , Mongolic , and Tungusic languages, with Korean and the Japonic Languages included by some.
- Another disputed language family, the Ural-Altaic Languages , is formed with the addition of Uralic Languages to the Altaic Languages .
- The Austric Languages is a hypothesised language family grouping the Austronesian Languages with the Austro-Asiatic Languages
A number of isolated languages - languages with no demonstrable links to other tongues - are also spoken in Asia:
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