• The languages of East Asia belong to several distinct language families, with many common features attributed to interaction. In the Mainland Southeast...
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    language. Asian studies Asianic languages Classification schemes for Southeast Asian languages East Asian languages Languages of South Asia List of extinct...
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  • The East Asian languages are a language family (alternatively macrofamily or superphylum) proposed by Stanley Starosta in 2001. The proposal has since...
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    East Asia is a region of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethno-cultural terms. The modern states of East Asia include China, Japan, Mongolia...
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    Southeast Asia is the geographical south-eastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent...
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    major East Asian language families are the Sinitic, Japonic, and Koreanic families. Other language families are Tibeto-Burman, Ainu languages, Mongolic...
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    "land of") in both respective native languages and most other languages. In the pre-Islamic and early Islamic eras (c. 1000 and earlier) Central Asia was...
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  • The names for chemical elements in East Asian languages, along with those for some chemical compounds (mostly organic), are among the newest words to enter...
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    This is a list of extinct languages of Asia, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers, and no spoken descendant. There are...
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  • East Asian people (East Asians or Northeast Asians) are the people from East Asia, which consists of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea,...
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  • The East Slavic languages constitute one of three regional subgroups of the Slavic languages, distinct from the West and South Slavic languages. East Slavic...
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    South Asia is home to several hundred languages, spanning the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka...
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  • spring-summer rainy season is referred to as "plum rain" in various languages of East Asia. In Japan the monsoon boundary is referred to as the tsuyu (梅雨)...
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    throughout mainland Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia. These languages are natively spoken by the majority of the population in Vietnam and Cambodia, and...
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    roughly 60% of their vocabulary derived from Chinese. There is a small set of minor languages that are comparable to the core East Asian languages, such as...
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  • America and the Western world, the study of East Asian humanities is traditionally housed in EALC (East Asian Languages and Civilizations or Cultures) departments...
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  • schemes for Southeast Asian languages (see the articles for the respective language families). The five established major language families are: Austroasiatic...
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    Southern Europe to Central Asia, East Asia, North Asia (Siberia), and West Asia. The Turkic languages originated in a region of East Asia spanning from Mongolia...
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    The languages of East Timor include both Austronesian and Papuan languages. (See Timor–Flores languages and Timor–Alor–Pantar languages.) The lingua franca...
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    and word processing software, most of which does not directly support right-to-left layout of East Asian languages. However, right-to-left horizontal...
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    Hmong–Mien languages (also known as Miao–Yao and rarely as Yangtzean) are a highly tonal language family of southern China and northern Southeast Asia. They...
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    Austronesian languages (/ˌɔːstrəˈniːʒən/) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar...
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  • languages acquired by children Languages of North America Languages of South America Languages of Asia East Asian languages Languages of South Asia Languages...
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    The Bank of East Asia Limited, often abbreviated to BEA, is a Hong Kong public banking and financial services company headquartered in Central, Hong Kong...
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    The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (Japanese: 大東亞共榮圈, Hepburn: Dai Tōa Kyōeiken), also known as the GEACPS, was a pan-Asian union that the Japanese...
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    Southeast Asia comprises the countries of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and East Timor. The term Island Southeast Asia or Insular...
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    The Eastern Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian languages, having emerged during the Middle Iranian era (4th century BC to 9th century AD)...
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    The Mongolic languages are a language family spoken by the Mongolic peoples in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, North Asia and East Asia, mostly in Mongolia...
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  • citizenry with East Asian ancestry or whose family members who recently emigrated to the United States from East Asia, as well as members of the Chinese...
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    East Asia generally encompasses the histories of China, Japan, The Koreas, Mongolia, and Taiwan from prehistoric times to the present. Each of its countries...
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