Talk:Languages of Asia

Languages High‑importance

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Asia High‑importance

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Central Asia Low‑importance

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China Low‑importance

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Japan Low‑importance

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Korea Low‑importance

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Russia: Language & literature / Demographics & ethnography Mid‑importance

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Southeast Asia Low‑importance

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India Low‑importance

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Pakistan Low‑importance

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Bangladesh Low‑importance

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Nepal Low‑importance

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Afghanistan Low‑importance

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Bhutan Low‑importance

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Maldives Low‑importance

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Myanmar Low‑importance

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Article requests : offices, ministries and politicians of current cabinet, requested articles on Burmese subjects and articles on smaller towns and villages
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Photo : add photos of incumbent politicians
Stubs : Category:Myanmar stubs
Update : offices, ministries and politicians of current cabinet after 2015 election
Other : If you know Burmese, go on the Myanmar Wikipedia and make sure each article on the English Wikipedia has one in Burmese also

South Asia Low‑importance

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Map needed

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Other Language Families Attested in Asia

Latest comment: 17 years ago4 comments4 people in discussion

So uh, what about the Indo-European and Dravidian languages? The former extends well into Asia and the latter is to my knowledge confined to Asia. Also I'm not sure what a long history of writing has to do with the languages. This is true of the Afro-Asiatic languages (e.g. Egyptian, Phoenecian, Hebrew) yet is not mentioned on the Languages of Africa page. Myrkkyhammas (talk) 21:12, 2 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

This article needs some work. As you can tell, articles like Languages of Africa and Languages of Europe are much more developed. I agree with all of your comments and would recommend just making the changes yourself. Although with the Indo-European language family, I would suggest only adding the branches relevant to Asia, such as Balto-Slavic and Indo-Iranian. – Novem Lingvae (talk) 22:31, 2 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Africa and Europe are more coherent linguistic areas than Asia. East Asian languages for example covers an area sharing many areal features. But it's hard to say that languages over all or most of Asia have any features in common. --JWB (talk) 03:23, 4 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

What about Arabic? Why it is not mentioned? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.215.196.56 (talk) 11:00, 21 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Map is confusing

Latest comment: 9 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The languages spoken on the Korean peninsula are "Germanic"? Seriously? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.95.43.249 (talk) 20:40, 3 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Should Dari, Persian, and Tajik be separate?

Latest comment: 7 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The list seems to separate the 3 despite being the same language, albeit different dialects. Should we merge them?2605:6001:E7C4:1E00:2084:70A9:AE84:F280 (talk) 03:28, 23 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

Fake entry: Akcrai

Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Looks like the list contains a fake entry, the language of "Akcrai" if I'm not mistaken. Unless there's a language with 20 mil speakers that's official to Cyprus, Indonesia, Nepal and India TheEsb (talk) 14:16, 13 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

Senpai

Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Senpai 2603:900A:1900:7F39:79EE:29B9:36EA:1D9C (talk) 21:08, 21 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Demographics vs Official Language

Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I feel like the language list being only official languages is rather limiting. It seems other similar pages such as the one for Africa list non-official languages of the continent as well. Would anyone be apposed to me changing this? Burgercrisis (talk) 23:02, 10 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

Add Greek

Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Greek is an official language of Cyprus. Can you please add Greek on the list? TomTom7474 (talk) 15:48, 9 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Official languages: English?

Latest comment: 7 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The Official languages table does not include English, even though English has official status in India, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, and Hong Kong. -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:33, 15 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Image

Latest comment: 3 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The image on this page appears to show Arabic as a Turkic language. Is there a more correct map that we can upload instead? Vergencescattered (talk) 18:15, 13 April 2026 (UTC)Reply