The Languages of Asia

A language majority of still increasing importance.

Main languages of Asia and the numbers of users:

• Chinese (1,2 mld)
• Burmese (32 mln)
• Mongolian (7 mln)
• Languages of India (1 mld)
• Kurdish (31 mln)
• Turkmen (6,5 mln)
• Russian (145 mln)
• Khmer (20 mln)
• Tibetan (6,5 mln)
• Japanese (130 mln)
• Uzbek (18,5 mln)
• Armenian (6 mln)
• Korean (78 mln)
• Nepali (17 mln)
• Lao (5,2 mln)
• Vietnamese (70 mln)
• Dari (14 mln)
• Tajik (4,4 mln)
• Farsi (62 mln)
• Uyghur (10 mln)
• Hmong (4 mln)
• Thai (48 mln)
• Kazakh (8,3 mln)
• Kirghiz (3 mln)
• Pashto (45 mln)
• Tatar (8 mln)
• Chechen (0,95 mln)
• Farsi (40 mln)
• Georgian (7,5 mln)
• Azerbaijani (32 mln)
• Hebrew (7 mln)

The size of the population utilizing particular language is given in parentheses.

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