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English: Of the many language families of Asia, Indo-European (purple, blue, and medium green) and Sino-Tibetan (chartreuse and pink) dominate numerically, while Altaic families (grey, bright green, and maroon) occupy large areas geographically. Regionally dominant families are Japonic in Japan (light gray), Austronesian in the Malay Archipelago (dark red), Kadai and Mon–Khmer in Southeast Asia (azure and peach), Dravidian in South India (khaki), Turkic in Central Asia (grey), and Semitic in the Mideast (orange). |
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| Date | 29 January 2012 (original upload date) | |||
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| Author | Industrius at English Wikipedia, Mttll at English Wikipedia, Kwamikagami at English Wikipedia, etc. |
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- 2012-01-29 14:21 Kwamikagami 841×407× (32209 bytes) {{Information |Description = Language families of Asia |Source = Clipped from [[:File:Human Language Families Map.PNG]] |Date = ~~~~~ |Author = ~~~ |other_versions = }}
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| current | 15:19, 19 June 2024 | No thumbnail | 741 × 580 (35 KB) | wikimediacommons>SamBrev | The previous edit inadvertently mis-coloured the Arabian peninsula; this edit reverts that error, while keeping the changes made re. Azerbaijan |
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