Home›Eurasian Language Families›Region›East AsiaBrowse ByEast AsiaRegion names where a language family is spoken today, which can be far wider than where it began. Wikipedia notes several Indo-European languages "have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across Africa, Americas, Oceania and North Asia." This dimension shows the present-day reach of a family rather than only its point of origin.East AsiaComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)East AsiaFilter Results18 entriesMacro-areaAllAustroasiatic Languages (5)Language Isolates and Small Families (1)Sign Languages (1)Sino-Tibetan Branches (5)Tai-Kadai and Hmong-Mien (4)Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic (2)Parent Family (Classification Tree)AllAustroasiatic (1)Kra-Dai (1)Turkic (1)Speaker Count BandAll24,600 to 795,000 (1)798,400 to 3,238,000,000 (9)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (11)Classification StatusAllEstablished (8)Number of LanguagesAll16 to 1,408 (7)6 to 15 (1)In GroupAllAustroasiatic Languages (5)Language Isolates and Small Families (1)Sign Languages (1)Sino-Tibetan Branches (5)Tai-Kadai and Hmong-Mien (4)Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic (2)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 18AltaicEast AsiaAustricEast AsiaAustroasiaticEast AsiaCommon TurkicEast AsiaEast Asian languagesEast AsiaHmong-MienEast AsiaJapanese Sign Language familyEast AsiaKam-Tai languagesEast AsiaKra-DaiEast AsiaLolo-BurmeseEast AsiaMon-Khmer languagesEast AsiaPalaungic languagesEast AsiaSiniticEast AsiaSino-TibetanEast AsiaSino-Uralic hypothesisEast AsiaTaiEast AsiaTibeto-BurmanEast AsiaVieticEast AsiaComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.