Eurasian Language Families

A language family whose living or historical member languages are documented as native to Europe, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia, North Asia or East Asia: Indo-European's many branches, the Uralic, Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic families of the Eurasian steppe, the Sino-Tibetan, Kra-Dai and Hmong-Mien families of East and Southeast Asia, the Northeast and Northwest Caucasian and Kartvelian families, the Semitic family, and the Formosan languages of Taiwan. Belongs here: any language-family entity whose constituent languages are natively spoken predominantly across the Eurasian landmass, including the Middle East and South Asia by this atlas's own convention. Does not belong here: a family whose members are documented in maritime Southeast Asia, New Guinea or the wider Pacific, grouped instead under New Guinea and Pacific Language Families even where a shared distant ancestry with an Asian family, as Austronesian's with Formosan, is debated among specialists.