There are a wide variety of languages spoken thoughout Asia, comprising a number of families and unrelated isolate languages.
- Sino-Tibetan languages
- Indo-European languages are widely spoken in southern and western Asia, as well as Asian Russia:
- Semitic languages
- Turkic languages
- Tai-Kadai languages
- Austroasiatic languages
- The Altaic languages are a somewhat disputed grouping. Sometimes included are Korean and Japanese