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What are the most commonly spoken languages in Southeast Asia?

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I presume you mean as a region, right? According to John Hartmann, Professor of Thai at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at Northern Illinois University, there are four main indigenous language families spoken in Southeast Asia, with some samples of the largest languages (official languages in bold):. read more

The family includes both Indic languages (Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, Kashmiri, Marathi, Gujarati, Sinhalese and other languages spoken primarily in South Asia) and Iranian (Persian, Kurdish, Pashto, Balochi and other languages spoken primarily in Iran, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Central Asia, the Caucasus and parts of South Asia). read more

I. Language Families of Southeast Asia Major Indigenous spoken languages: Sino-Tibetan: e.g. Burmese (Myanmar); Tai languages: Thai, Lao; Austro-Asiatic: Mon, Khmer (Cambodian); Vietnamese; Austronesian: Malay(sian), Indonesian; Philippine languages: Tagalog, Ilocano; Cham; Papuan: Timor; Major Foreign languages: Chinese dialects (spoken in Singapore and major cities of SEA) English. II. read more

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