Tip of the day 2

Think before you say something stupidz!! "Asia is tiny, and their universal language is Asian"


According to wikipedia there are 45 countries in Asia, NONE of these speak the universal language of ASIAN!



o Indo-Iranian languages:
+ Indo-Aryan languages: Sanskrit, Pali, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Nepali, Sinhalese, Assamese, Punjabi, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Oriya, Marathi, Bihari, Gujarati
+ Iranian languages: Persian, Kurdish, Pashto, Tajik, Baluchi
o Hellenic languages: Greek
o Armenian language
o Germanic languages: English, German, Yiddish
o Slavic languages: Russian


* Dravidian languages:
o Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Tulu

* Burushaski language
* Nihali language
* Kusunda language (recently suggested as part of Indo-Pacific languages)

* Semitic languages:
o Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Aramaic




* Uralic languages
* The Altaic languages include the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages. Some also include Korean and the Japonic languages; on the other hand there are some who argue Altaic is not a genetic (linguistics) group at all.
* Turkic languages:
o Turkish, Kyrgyz, Azeri, Turkmen, Tatar, Uzbek, Kazakh, Uyghur
* Mongolic languages
o Mongolian, Buryat
* Japonic languages
o Japanese, Ryukyuan
* Korean languages



* Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
* Eskimo-Aleut languages
* Yukaghir languages
* Nivkh
* Yeniseian languages



* Sino-Tibetan languages:
o Chinese languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Gan, Wu, Min, Xiang
o Tibeto-Burman languages: Tibetan, Burmese, (and in South Asia) Nepal Bhasa, Mizo, Kiranti languages

* Tai-Kadai languages
o Thai, Hkamti, Lao

* Hmong-Mien languages



* Austronesian languages:
o Atayal, Cebuano, Cham, Ilokano, Indonesian, Javanese, Malay, Paiwan, Sundanese, Tagalog, Tetum
* Austro-Asiatic languages
o Vietnamese, Khmer, Mon, Khasi, Nicobarese, Munda

* Andamanese languages (suggested as part of an Indo-Pacific languages group)
* Singlish, Singaporean English