Most languages spoken in India belong either to the Indo-Aryan (c. 74%), the Dravidian (c. 24%), the Austroasiatic (c. 1.2%), or the Tibeto-Burman (c. 0.6%) families, with some languages of the Himalayas still unclassified. The SIL Ethnologue lists 461 living languages for India.. Hindustani is the most widespread language of India. The Indian census takes the widest possible definition …

The Austroasiatic languages / ˌ ɒ s t r oʊ. eɪ ʒ i ˈ æ t ɪ k /, / ˌ ɔː-/, also known as Mon–Khmer / m oʊ n k ə ˈ m ɛər /, are a large language family in Mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia.These languages are scattered throughout parts of Thailand, Laos, India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Nepal, and southern China and are the majority languages of Vietnam and …

Name Nation View Population Mayor or governor Dhaka Bangladesh 6,594,962 (2013) Annisul Huq and Sayeed Khokon Islamabad Pakistan 1,330,000 (2011) Sheikh Ansar Aziz

The Modern South Arabian languages (MSALs), also known as Eastern South Semitic languages, are a group of endangered languages spoken by small populations inhabiting the Arabian Peninsula, in Yemen and Oman, ... Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa. Nakano, Aki’o (2013). Ratcliffe, Robert (ed.).

Truck art in South Asia is a popular form of regional decoration, with trucks featuring elaborate floral patterns and calligraphy. It is especially common in Pakistan and India.. During the War in Afghanistan, Pakistani decorated trucks that ran services between Pakistan and Afghanistan came to be known as jingle trucks by American troops and contractors who were deployed …

The Monsoon of South Asia is among several geographically distributed global monsoons.It affects the Indian subcontinent, where it is one of the oldest and most anticipated weather phenomena and an economically important pattern every year from June through September, but it is only partly understood and notoriously difficult to predict.Several theories have been …

The Central Indo-Aryan languages or Hindi languages are a group of related language varieties Spoken across North India and Central India.These language varieties form the central part of the Indo-Aryan language family, itself a part of the Indo-European language family. They historically form a dialect continuum that descends from the Middle Prakrits. ...

The 2018 Asia Rugby Championship was the fourth annual rugby union series for the top-level Asia Rugby nations. The Asia Rugby Championship in 2018 formed part of the World Cup qualifying process and, as such, did not include Japan who had already qualified as the 2019 Rugby World Cup host. Hong Kong and South Korea were joined by Malaysia, promoted from …

Rank Metropolitan area Country Region Population 1: Southern China Coast Megalopolis (Pearl River Delta-Chaoshan-Xiamen-Quanzhou-Fuzhou)China: East Asia: 200,000,000 2: Java Island (Jakarta-Surabaya-Bandung-Semarang-Surakarta …

The continent of Asia covers 29.4% of the Earth's land area and has a population of around 4.73 billion (as of 2021), accounting for about 60% of the world population. The combined population of both China and India are estimated to be over 2.8 billion people as of 2021.Asia's population is projected to grow to 5.26 billion by 2050, or about 54% of projected world population at that time.