Languages of Asia
A comparative vocabulary of the languages of Asia.
National languages in bold
Original Languages
Indo-European / Indo-Iranian / North-West
Kurdish
Balochi
Indo-European / Indo-Iranian / South-West
Persian
Dari
Tajik
Indo-European / Indo-Iranian / Iranian / South-East
Pashto
Indo-European / Indo-Iranian / Indo-Aryan / Dardic
Kashmiri
Indo-European / Indo-Iranian / Indo-Aryan / North
Nepali
Indo-European / Indo-Iranian / Indo-Aryan / North-West
Punjabi
Sindhi
Indo-European / Indo-Iranian / Indo-Aryan / West
Rajasthani
Gujarati
Indo-European / Indo-Iranian / Indo-Aryan / South
Marathi
Konkani
Indo-European / Indo-Iranian / Indo-Aryan / Central
Urdu
Hindi
Indo-European / Indo-Iranian / Indo-Aryan / East
Oriya
Bengali
Assamese
Indo-European / Indo-Iranian / Indo-Aryan / Insular
Sinhalese
Dravidian / South
Tamil
Kannada
Malayalam
Dravidian / South-Central
Telugu
Dravidian / North
Brahui
Afro-Asiatic / Semitic / Central
Arabic (Modern Standard)
Arabic (Syria)
Arabic (Iraq)
Arabic (Gulf)
Hebrew
Aramaic
Turkic / South-West
Turkmen
Turkic / North-West
Kazakh
Kyrgyz
Turkic / North-East
Yakut
Turkic / South-East
Uzbek
Uyghur
Mongolic / Central
Mongolian
Austroasiatic
Khmer
Austroasiatic / Vietic
Vietnamese
Tai-Kadai / Tai / South-Western
Thai
Lao
Sino-Tibetan / Burmic
Burmese
Sino-Tibetan / Sinitic / Chinese
Chinese (Cantonese)
Chinese (Mandarin)
Sino-Tibetan / Tibetic
Tibetan
Sherpa
Japonic
Japanese
Korean
Korean
Ainu
Ainu
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