Among the families of Asian languages, there is the Sino-Tibetan family which includes Mandarin. It is the second language family in the world in terms of number of speakers (after the Indo-European family).
As for the rest, the Austro-Asiatic languages (among them the Vietnamese language), the Tai-Kadai, Hmong-mien, Mongolian, Turkish, Tungus languages, the Dravidian languages of southern India and the almost extinct languages of Kamchatka show great diversity.
Many families of languages spoken in Asia have another particularity: they are transcontinental, that is to say, they are spoken in both Asia and other continents.
 

• Andamanese Languages
• Afro-Asiatic Languages
• Austro-Asiatic Languages
• Austronesian language family
• Border languages
• Northeast Caucasian Languages
• Northwest Caucasian Languages
• South Caucasian Languages
• Cendarawasih or Eastern “Geelvink Bay” languages
• Dravidian languages
• Hmong-Mien Languages
• Indo-European Languages
• Japonic languages
• Mongolic Languages
• Uralic or Finno-Ugrian Languages
• Sino-Tibetan languages
• Tai-Kadai languages
• Chukotko-Kamchatkan Languages
• Tor-Kwerba languages
• Tungusic Languages
• Trans-New-Guinea languages
• Turkic Languages
• Yukaghir Languages
• Portuguese-based Creole languages

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• Language isolates and non-classified languages

 
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