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  2. Languages of Asia - Wikipedia

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    extinct languages of the Fertile Crescent such as Sumerian and Elamite. extinct languages of South Asia; mainly the unclassified Harappan language; small language families and isolates of the Indian subcontinent: Burushaski, Kusunda, and Nihali. The Vedda language of Sri Lanka is likely an isolate that has mixed with Sinhala.

  3. French Indochina - Wikipedia

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    French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China), [a] [b] officially known as the Indochinese Union [c] [d] and after 1941 as the Indochinese Federation, [e] was a group of French dependent territories in Southeast Asia from 1887 to 1954.

  4. Mainland Southeast Asia - Wikipedia

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    1886 map of Indochina, from the Scottish Geographical Magazine. In Indian sources, the earliest name connected with Southeast Asia is Yāvadvīpa []. [1] Another possible early name of mainland Southeast Asia was Suvarṇabhūmi ("land of gold"), [1] [2] a toponym, that appears in many ancient Indian literary sources and Buddhist texts, [3] but which, along with Suvarṇadvīpa ("island" or ...

  5. File:Map of French Indochina expansion.svg - Wikipedia

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  6. East Indies - Wikipedia

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    The East Indies (or simply the Indies) is a term used in historical narratives of the Age of Discovery.The Indies broadly referred to various lands in the East or the Eastern Hemisphere, particularly the islands and mainlands found in and around the Indian Ocean by Portuguese explorers, soon after the Cape Route was discovered.

  7. Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area - Wikipedia

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    The Austroasiatic languages include Vietnamese and Khmer, as well as many other languages spoken in scattered pockets as far afield as Malaya and eastern India.Most linguists believe that Austroasiatic languages once ranged continuously across southeast Asia and that their scattered distribution today is the result of the subsequent migration of speakers of other language groups from southern ...

  8. Indomalayan realm - Wikipedia

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    Major ecological regions [ edit ] The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) divides Indomalayan realm into three bio-regions, which it defines as "geographic clusters of eco-regions that may span several habitat types, but have strong biogeographic affinities, particularly at taxonomic levels higher than the species level (genus, family)".

  9. Category:Regions of Asia - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Regions of Asia" ... Europe, the Middle East and Africa; Muslim world; N. Najd; ... 102 languages ...