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Languages of Asia Part 2: South Asia

Languages of Asia Part 2: South Asia. ASIAN 401 Spring 2009. Review. Name the six language families of North/East/Southeast Asia Name four countries in peninsular Southeast Asia Name two language isolates Name three Austronesian lgs. Name a Sino-Tibetan language. SOUTH ASIA. Bangla-

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Languages of Asia Part 2: South Asia

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  1. Languages of AsiaPart 2: South Asia ASIAN 401 Spring 2009

  2. Review • Name the six language families of North/East/Southeast Asia • Name four countries in peninsular Southeast Asia • Name two language isolates • Name three Austronesian lgs. • Name a Sino-Tibetan language

  3. SOUTH ASIA

  4. Bangla- desh Munda lgs: Austroasiatic family SOUTH ASIA China Pakistan Tibet Urdu: Indo-Aryan family Nepal NE India Sino-Tibetan Languages India Hindi: Indo-Aryan family Bengali: Indo-Aryan family Sri Lanka Tamil: Dravidian family

  5. Languages Families • Indo-Aryan: Pakistan, India • Dravidian: S India, Sri Lanka • Sino-Tibetan: NE India, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet • Austroasiatic: E India

  6. Sample Languages • Indo-Aryan: Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi • Dravidian: Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu • Sino-Tibetan: Bodo, Garo, Naga • Austroasiatic: Santali

  7. Indo-Aryan • Branch of larger Indo-European family; >600 million speakers • Most of the major languages of India and Pakistan, as well as Nepali • Four distinct consonants p, ph, b, bh

  8. Dravidian • Major languages of S India and Sri Lanka (not found elsewhere) • ~200 million speakers • Probably were spoken in all of India before the Indo-Aryan speakers arrived

  9. Sino-Tibetan • Numerous small “hill tribe” languages in NE India; number of speakers small (~ 4 mil.), but number of lgs very large (>100?) • Also languages spoken in Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet • Very complex verb forms

  10. Austroasiatic • The Munda languages are spoken in scattered areas of E India • Related distantly to the Austroasiatic languages of peninsular SE Asia • Only about 10 lgs, < 8 million speakers. Santali has the most speakers.

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