Asian languages
Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Asian languages is an umbrella term for the thousands of languages spoken across the Asian continent, spanning dozens of distinct language families—including Sino-Tibetan (Chinese, Tibetan), Indo-European (Hindi, Farsi), Japonic, Koreanic, Austronesian, and many others.
The term is geographic rather than linguistic, as these languages share no common ancestor: She studied several Asian languages in college.
- MandarinHigh-ranking government official
- BurmeseOf a Southeast Asian nation
- ChineseOf that Asian nation
- SanskritAncient Indo-Aryan language
- TamilSouth Indian language
Korean · Thai · Indian · writing system · ancient script · Pali · tone · syllabary · Hindi · Vietnamese · Tagalog · Mongolian · Sino-Tibetan · Hangul · borrowed words · ideograph · honorifics · spoken word
- AsiaChina, India, Japan, Thailand, Korea
- Asian topics
- Asian studiesChinese history, Japanese history, Japanese literature, Chinese philosophy, Eastern philosophy
Asian languagesEuropean languages
Tongues from that continent
African languages · Romance languages · Slavic languages · Celtic languages · Scandinavian languages