Home›Eurasian Language Families›Region›South AsiaBrowse BySouth 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.South AsiaComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)South AsiaFilter Results12 entriesMacro-areaAllAustroasiatic Languages (3)Dravidian Language Family (2)Indo-European Branches (5)Indo-European: Anatolian and Tocharian (Extinct Branches) (1)Indo-European: Indo-Iranian Branch (4)Language Isolates and Small Families (1)Sino-Tibetan Branches (1)Parent Family (Classification Tree)AllAustroasiatic (1)Indo-European (1)Indo-Iranian (1)Speaker Count BandAll798,400 to 3,238,000,000 (6)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (6)Classification StatusAllEstablished (4)Number of LanguagesAll16 to 1,408 (4)In GroupAllAustroasiatic Languages (3)Dravidian Language Family (2)Indo-European: Anatolian and Tocharian (Extinct Branches) (1)Indo-European: Indo-Iranian Branch (4)Language Isolates and Small Families (1)Sino-Tibetan Branches (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 12AustricSouth AsiaAustroasiaticSouth AsiaDravidianSouth AsiaEast Asian languagesSouth AsiaElamo-DravidianSouth AsiaIndo-AryanSouth AsiaIndo-IranianSouth AsiaMon-Khmer languagesSouth AsiaOld Iranian languagesSouth AsiaPre-Indo-EuropeanSouth AsiaTibeto-BurmanSouth AsiaWestern IranianSouth 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.