There is a wide variety of languages spoken throughout Asia, comprising a number of families and some unrelated isolates. Many languages have a long tradition of writing.

South and West Asia

• Burushaski language
• Dravidian languages:
  • Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Tulu
• Indo-European languages, widely spoken in Southern, Western and Central Asia as well as Russia:
  • Indo-Iranian languages:
    • Indo-Aryan languages: Assamese, Bengali, Bihari, Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Pali, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sinhalese, Sindhi, Urdu
    • Iranian languages: Baluchi, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Tajik
  • Hellenic languages: Greek
  • Armenian language
  • Germanic languages: English, German, Yiddish
  • Romance languages: French, Portuguese
  • Slavic languages: Russian
• Kusunda language (recently suggested as part of Indo-Pacific languages)
• Nihali language
• Semitic languages:
  • Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac

Central and Northeast Asia

Ural-Altaic languages (now doubted to be a genetic grouping)

• Uralic languages
• The Altaic languages include the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages. Some also include Korean and the Japonic languages; on the other hand there are some who argue Altaic is not a genetic group at all.
• Turkic languages:
  • Azeri, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Uyghur, Uzbek
• Mongolic languages
  • [Buryat language|Buryat]], Mongolian
• Japonic languages
  • Japanese, Ryukyuan
• Korean languages

Paleosiberian languages

• Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
• Eskimo-Aleut languages
• Yukaghir languages
• Nivkh
• Yeniseian languages

East and Southeast Asian languages

• Sino-Tibetan languages:
  • Chinese languages: Cantonese, Gan, Hakka, Mandarin, Min, Wu, Xiang
  • Tibeto-Burman languages: Burmese, Kiranti languages, Mizo, Nepal Bhasa, Tibetan

• Tai-Kadai languages
  • Hkamti, Lao, Thai

• Hmong-Mien languages

The Austric languages is a hypothesised language family grouping the Austronesian languages with the Austro-Asiatic languages

• Austronesian languages:
  • Atayal, Cebuano, Cham, Ilokano, Indonesian, Javanese, Malay, Paiwan, Sundanese, Tagalog, Tetum
• Austro-Asiatic languages
  • Mon-Khmer
    • Khasi, Khmer, Mon, Kuy, Nicobarese, Vietnamese
  • Munda

• Andamanese languages (suggested as part of an Indo-Pacific languages group)
• Singlish, Singaporean English

See also

• East Asian languages
• Languages of India