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LANGUAGE REGIONS OF ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

There are eight major language families in Asia and the Pacific—Indo-European, Ural-Altaic, Indo-Aryan, Sino-Tibetan, Dravidian, Kadai, Austro-Asiatic, and Austronesian—from which most of the major local languages are derived. In addition, there are hundreds of regional and local dialects that are products of major language mixtures. Languages have been important sources of

cultural and political linkage—as well as conflict—in modern Asia. In former colonial possessions, Western languages frequently displaced the use of local languages among elite populations and provided a common medium of communication among different language groups.

출처 : The Modern World - by Sarolta Takács, Ph.D. (2008) - Asia and the Pacific 편 72page