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English: Of the many language families of Asia, Indo-European (purple, blue, and medium green) and Sino-Tibetan (chartreuse and pink) dominate numerically, while Altaic families (grey, bright green, and maroon) occupy large areas geographically. Regionally dominant families are Japonic in Japan (light gray), Austronesian in the Malay Archipelago (dark red), Kadai and Mon–Khmer in Southeast Asia (azure and peach), Dravidian in South India (khaki), Turkic in Central Asia (grey), and Semitic in the Mideast (orange).

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current	15:19, 19 June 2024	741 × 580 (35 KB)	SamBrev	The previous edit inadvertently mis-coloured the Arabian peninsula; this edit reverts that error, while keeping the changes made re. Azerbaijan
	00:00, 8 June 2024	741 × 580 (18 KB)	Oirattas	Armenian is no longer spoken over a territory of Azerbaijan since 2024, after the flight of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians and the collapse of the breakaway Republic Nagorno-Karabakh (Republic of Artsakh) in 2023.
	14:48, 10 May 2021	741 × 580 (33 KB)	Ghuaadg441	fixed
	13:35, 10 May 2021	738 × 575 (35 KB)	Ghuaadg441	Modern standards
	18:06, 8 May 2021	737 × 575 (35 KB)	Ghuaadg441	last
	18:03, 8 May 2021	738 × 575 (22 KB)	Ghuaadg441	Reverted to version as of 20:28, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
	17:47, 8 May 2021	737 × 575 (35 KB)	Ghuaadg441	2021
	17:45, 8 May 2021	737 × 575 (34 KB)	Ghuaadg441	Reverted to version as of 17:12, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
	17:33, 8 May 2021	737 × 575 (35 KB)	Ghuaadg441	fixed
	17:12, 8 May 2021	737 × 575 (34 KB)	Ghuaadg441	Reverted to version as of 16:48, 8 May 2021 (UTC)