"Asia is
home to hundreds of languages comprising several families and some
unrelated isolates. The most spoken language families on the
continent include Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Japonic, Dravidian, Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Turkic, Sino-Tibetan and Kra–Dai.
Many languages of Asia, such as Sanskrit, Arabic or Tamil,
have a long history as a written language.."Source
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