Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index There are a wide variety of languages spoken thoughout Asia, comprising a number of families and unrelated isolate languages. Sino-Tibetan languages Chinese, Tibetan, Burmese Indo-European languages are widely spoken in southern and western Asia, as well as Asian Russia: Indo-Iranian languages: Persian, Urdu, Hindi, Kurdish Slavic languages: Russian Semitic languages Turkic languages Tai-Kadai languages Austroasiatic languages The Altaic languages are a somewhat disputed grouping. Sometimes included are Korean and Japanese See also: East Asian language This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.