bro you missed dragon language, mostly spoken in Tibet ocean

No you didn't But some are upset that you mentioned one specific language......

Thanks for adding kurdish! Sound of cring turks 😋

Your Map is not consistent, it divides Chinese into northern and southern branches, while Tibetan which for all intents and purposes is three different languages with a common writing system is not divided as such.

Spanish has presence in the Philipines

Unfortunately The division is still not great Because my state is the youngest formed in India called Telangana we share language with another but not same culturally Language division is not right in a place like India In some areas people want separate state for speaking a different language in a state where another language is dominant but people are different culturally In some places people want separate state because they are different culturally though they speak same language like in our case

@@dv9239 but look at the rest of the world, currently and throughout history, and imagine how much worse it would he if the states were determined by religious majority and how bad it would be if each state's religious majority had free reign to suppress the religious minorities. It's not perfect as it is, but it could be a lot worse. Look at everywhere else that the British drew the borders and they've stayed the same ever since. India made a smart move changing the internal borders.

Jason Bitkower is right. Even when Telangana split from Andhra, there wasn’t even a major riot or conflict that happened before or after. It was borne out of political and even cultural identity. Telangana, for centuries, was invaded more by Muslims and was part of several empires Andhra wasn’t. Same applies vice versa, like the Vijayanagara Empire. India made a smart decision on linguistic division and any inter-state issues have been resolved peacefully and efficiently.

bruh Bangladesh fought Pakistan for independence for language alone, the Bengali mother language movement started in 1952 under East Pakistan and later lead to the liberation war. The primary reason for the war was being able to speak and write in Bengali.

Bangladesh liberation war was fought because of language. Because Pakistan government wanted to impose urdu on Bengali speaking nation.

Good point! Those make sense as a natural divide for language use

I mean, you just have to look at Southeast Asia and Tibet Like you can see in Austroasiatic, Vietic (Vietnamese + Muong) and Khmer are all in the lowlands, while Bahnaric, Katuic, and Khmuic are all relegated to the highlands Same with the Palaungics, Pakanics, Aslian, etc In Myanmar, the lowlands are dominated by the Burmese (though the delta used to be dominated by the Mon of the Austroasiatic language family), and other languages like Shan, Karen, Wa, Palaung, Kachin, etc, are stuck in the mountains In the Kra-Dai family, Thai and Lao are in the lowlands and basically every other Kra-Dai language such as the Tay languages, the Zhuang, etc are in the highlands The Caucasus Mountains are one of the most diverse places in the world, all because the mountains isolated people for long enough to develop new languages Indonesia has literally hundreds or even thousands of distinct languages because its geography divided them in a way similar to the Caucasus. There is the Acehnese, Javanese, Sunda, Malay, Balinese, and even some non-Austronesian languages such as the Halmaheran languages I will not be listing off example languages for the Annamite, Burmese, and Himalayan mountains, because I would have a seizure. But examples of language families in the area would include Austroasiatic (Palaung), Kra-Dai (Shan), Austronesian (Jarai), Sino-Tibetan (Karen), Indo-European (Nepalese), and probably some that I am forgetting

@@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500 Thank you!

@@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500 Lover of languages, history, and the world here. Joking about seizures is as funny as getting run over by a truck. If you don't have them, it's not funny. If you've ever really had to help people survive serious seizures, it's not amusing at all. If you continue to joke about seizures, may you have one at the worst, most perilous moment.

@@beadingbusily joking about getting running over by a truck is not the best comparison to make, seeing as i am currently laughing at that too. but i do see your point about insensitivity and agree that seizures shouldnt be taken lightly

Those damn Borneans venture so far away lol

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genetically many of them are southeast asian as well.

@@dauf69 actually, the DNA is closer to the Sumatrans.

@@arthurmorgan2887 I mean, Sumatrans are in the same group with Borneans. If you group Austronesian speaking people, it’s… -Philippines, Taiwan (Ami & Yami), Indonesia (Minahasa, Gorontalo, North Sulawesi), Malaysia (Kinabalu) -Malay Language (Majority of Indonesia and Malaysia) -Malaysia (Borneo), Indonesia (Sumatra) -Indonesia (Areas near East Timor) -Pacific Islanders [Polynesia] [Micronesia] [Melanesia]

@@nitaseely6830那你到底是怎麼看到這影片了

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@@anglohan5428 什么臭傻逼，急死你算了。

Come and get it or forget about it.

@@anglohan5428 but HongKongese speak Chinese, it's just a port

@@ReekyCheeks ermeni

@@ReekyCheeks I don't see how Turkey using Turkish as its main language has anything to do with what they said. Doesn't matter though because it is legal to speak Kurdish in public.

@@ReekyCheeks even street signs are in kurdish in cities like diyarbakır tf are you talking about. if you speak kurdish in public nothing happens. kurdish was banned between 1980-1991. not anymore.

@@ReekyCheeks u guys are so fkn cringe to shit on a country that u never been to, nothing happens.

@@israilkolas5853 11 years bruh

Don't forget socio-cultural reasons

@@didd2810socio-cultural reasons didn’t do much conflict in this case.

If Telengana deserve to be a separate state then Gorkhaland is also justified!

@@charithreddy23 You can go Nepal and make Gorkhaland for the Nepali people there.

@@saptarsheepaul1705 what am I supposed to do with it 🗿

If it’s still BEHIND Papua New Guniea then Indonesia ain’t the country with the MOST number of languages, silly overproud people

@@daffa9488 LOL .... Sir, I suggest you to watch more movies or news in English so you won't make any more stvpid comment in the future.

its older than that. Indonesian Bahasa exist at least since Sumpah Pemuda in 1928.

@@daffa9488 half of Papua is literally in Indonesia tho 🤷‍♂️

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Agreed. I found it a bit weird as he talk quite a lot about how India and Pakistan should be separated yet mention only a little about countries like Philippines and Indonesia which also had a lot of language on their own. Still, for someone completely unknown to Asian language, this video is a great introduction.

@@voralles1911 the main problem is the literature being immature. For example, the Bicol language is scholarly divided into dialects, but some of the dialects are non-mutually intelligible, though some may have similar sentence construction, etc. For example, someone from Camarines Norte (which has a bicol speaking and tagalog speaking area, unlike what is shown in the map). A person from CN would understand someone from Naga (province next door in Camarines Sur), Legazpi (1 province away in Albay, and some parts of Sorsogon (The literal end of the bicol peninsula mainland) and maybe someone from the island provinces off the mainland. The very same person who can understand those people even though geographically separated would barely understand someone from the Rinconada area in Camarines Sur, the province next door that Naga is also a part of. Fun fact, even in the same province, Rinconada won't be understood by most people not from the Rinconada area. The only reason someone from outside the Rinconada area would understand it is through being exposed to Rinconada language and culture. Another fun fact, Rinconada is sometimes more similar to Visayan and Malay languages in general. As far as I know, the major reason it's classified as a bicol dialect is the fact that it's a language within Bicol and is very to use and understand as long as you know the translation from other bicol languages (almost if not the same grammar, sentence construction, etc), the words are just almost completely different. For something to be a dialect, it has to be a certain amount mutually intelligible while also being very similar in many aspects, but Rinconada is like literally a different language when spoken to other native Bicol speakers, and is apparently more closely related to the oldest versions of Bicol (Proto-bicol) than other Bicol "dialects". After that lengthy discussion, it has to be pointed out that there's is like 2-3 major literature's that try to group and study the bicol languages, and they all disagree on so many things. When there is barely any references and the small amount of references even try to contradict and refute each other's claims, you can barely discuss or create an appropriate consensus unless you go and conduct your own field study.

As Indonesian myself i feel what you feel. People in Indonesia and SEA in general tend to confuse when it come to separate between Leanguage, Dialect and Accent. For example Malaysian still think that all language in Indonesia is just Malay dialect even when it doesn't have the same root with Malay like Papuan for example.

@@xtsgaming8518 dai ko aram ini!

@@xtsgaming8518 napansin ko sa wika ng Naga, halo ang salita: may tagalog, at visayan. kakalipat ko pa lang naman haha

That's true! I'm curious if that's the case with those remote German communities in Russia?

Its amazing those still exist in large numbers after multiple attempts to get rid of them

@@General.Knowledge we'd love to reunite with them :(

Technically speaking the entirety of Japan, Korea, Singapore, and parts of malaysia, vietnam, indonesia and burma are all former ‘pockets’ of Chinese speakers. So you can pretty clearly see the differences

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Only a fraction were drawn on language. Majority's borders are either politically convenient or the same from the British era. This is why so many Indian states have Hindi as their official language even though their languages are almost always entirely different from Hindi and is not their mother tongues.

@@didd2810 Excepting the cow belt states where the borders were drafted out of political convenience, most other state borders were drawn with the linguistic groups in mind

They were formerly the borders of warring feudal empires

@@didd2810 The states which have Hindi as an official language have their own dialects

@@lamewater772 those cow belt are themselves the biggest proportion of land and people in India

the most closest language in the Philippines to the Malay would be Tausug, Maguindanaon and Meranao... Tagalog and bisaya is already swamped with Spanish words that only very few words would be understandable to a native malay speaker...

@@justsomehaatonpassingby4488 Yes. You're right 👍🏻

@@justsomehaatonpassingby4488 You do realize the majority of Tagalog vocabulary is still native Tagalog, right? Also, a lot of the prefixes and suffixes used in Tagalog verbs are similar to Malay prefixes, except that they're fossilized in Malay to not conjugate based on aspect, while Tagalog retains this extensively. It's not just "very few words," there are quite a few cognates between the languages.

@@romanr.301 If you compare Tagalog to Tausug, a Malay speaking person would understand Tausug than Tagalog, though it's true that the core Tagalog still has some semblance to the Malay language, but point is, Tagalog language has more Spanish (about 13% purely of Spanish origin, though if you include common words for daily concepts like numbers, prices, day, month or etc... You can get up to 40% Spanish depending on who you ask) than Malay (which Tagalog has about 10% of words), not to mention about the code switching between English, Tagalog and Spanish words that Filipino's use in speaking, which would make it harder for a Malay to really understand the language... As such the most closest language we have to the Malay Languages is the 3 afforementioned language

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Political intervention in standardizing the use of a certain language is common anywhere, in different extents. Just for small comparison example, people in negeri-negeri in current Malaysia used to speak different languages/dialects, some are very much different from modern standard Bahasa Malaysia. After the forming of Malaysia, Bahasa Melayu Riau-Johor was chosen to be used and developed as the standard Bahasa Melayu/Malaysia in the whole country. Just like the development of Bahasa Melayu Riau-Johor into Bahasa Indonesia that consider the existing languages and needs of Indonesians, the development of it into Bahasa Malaysia does the same respectively.

The whole grammar of Bahasa Indonesia feels insanely simple and artificial.

@@lutfiprayogi2 I think Bahasa Indonesia rooted from Bahasa Melayu Riau-Lingga, not Riau-Johor.

@@haha-nz8pw yeah I believe it’s more proper to say so, even tho Bahasa Melayu Riau-Lingga-Johor are pretty much similar.

@@haha-nz8pwRiau-Johor is also accurate because they were part of the same sultanate before the 1824 anglo-dutch treaty

Nice bro

Ainu has only like 20 native first-language speakers left at this point tho.

@@starborneolympus3907 Ainu people are native to not only Hokkaido but also other parts of Japan. Nevertheless, there aren't any left except Hokkaido. Those in Hokkaido also assimilated through racism, discrimination, etc. I wouldn't include them because they are on the verge of extinction.

@@starborneolympus3907 yes but even though they don't speak it, some 25,000 people identify as Ainu in Japan on the national census.

@@arienka5264 Irish was on the verge of extinction at one point. Look at it now, given its cultural revitalization. You could say the same about a lot of indigenous languages in Canada which amongst the First Nations are beginning to once again be spoken more and more. A language is only extinct if it is allowed to die. The consequences of not allowing that to happen are frankly vast.

@@K1ddkanuck though better but Irish is still in the ICU. More needs to be isn't?

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Even Papua on its own has so many Languages, relative to its size!

yeah even like javanese has different accents & not all java share the same words & grammar

So if you take a random language out of those 718. You mean to say that someone with full knowledge of any of the other 717 languages will have no idea what the other is talking about?

@@Vincrand yes, some of it will sound similar, but you can't understand it, let alone making conversation.

You've got it slightly wrong. Nguni languages are Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele and Swazi, Sotho languages are another group, including Sotho (South Sotho), Pedi (North Sotho) and Tswana (Once called West Sotho). Venda and Tsonga are in groups of their own - not mutually intelligible. English and Afrikaans are both Germanic, though not mutually intelligible. This, of course, is a massive oversimplification. The 11 languages are the standardised, literary forms. North Sotho, for example, is a collection of several languages, but the Pedi dialect is the literary standard.

Anything that is not in continental Europe is considered Asia

That's a lot wow

Always fascinates. I always thought Filipinos only spoke Tagalog till my one Filipino friend lectured me in detail about the scary amount of thr quite different languages and dialects on the islands when I ignorantly told him that they only had one language to deal with.

@@didd2810 If you said the country only has one language in the Philippines all the Tagalog and Bisaya speakers in the area will fight for supremacy 😂

I love Philippines 🤗💚

peenoise fried

I guess this is the case for a lot of places in Africa and Asia. Many communities that should be together were split up, and vice versa too.

@@sakagonicdom You can’t compare Bengalis and Punjabis with those other examples. 1947 partition was a long standing nightmare for these two races. Millions of people became homeless, 3 millions Hindu and Sikh women were raped, many people were forcefully converted. If you see some of the Bengali and Punjabi movies related to partition, you won’t be able to stop your tears ! 😢😢 and same thing happened to Tamils in Srilanka. Frankly speaking you won’t be able to fathom the pain, unless your own house would have been burnt down! 😢😢😢 I feel pain when I write this comment.

@@General.Knowledge Mr GK - exodus of Bengali and Punjabi Hindus and Sikhs can only be compared with Holocaust by Hitler.

@@lifeboy1978 🤣🤣🤣

@@ryanmarlin2974 rude. Probably Hitler has resurrected into you ! Your name is Ryan Hitler.

only Sumatran Malays and Kalimantan Malays are similar to Malaysia, people from Java Island, Sulawesi Island, Papua, are not similar

*_Agree!!!_*

​ people, especially the western tend to brush off local languange as "dialect" when the difference could be more than Dutch and Germany, or Portugese and Spain. Which on my ears sounds relatively the same, share some words, but they said it's different languange. Idk where the line draw. Good luck learning Sundanese and trying to speak to Batak people thinking they were mere dialect of "Indonesian"

@@Kane_2001 Jakarta or the Betawi tribe also uses the Malay language because they are a new ethnic group that mixes from various tribes in Indonesia

@@Kane_2001 Javanese and Sundanese speaks the form of language in the same group as Malay language: Western Austro-Polynesian. The only language groups that different from the rest of archipelago are Melanesian group: from Papua, some parts of Maluku and Eastern Sunda Islands. Ffs, I really despise the fact that we're always trying to divide each other just because of Dutch and British colonized different parts of our country.

It's actually so annoying when people brush off a language as dialects but on ground you cannot understand the other language even one bit by knowing only one of the two languages...right

@@aimy5637 As the famous quote goes, "the difference between a dialect and a language is an army". ha ha. What bugs me is the insistence of the PRC calling all the Sinitic (aka Chinese) languages as dialects even though they absolutely cannot understand each other (i.e., a Mandarin speaker absolutely cannot understand someone speaking Cantonese or Taiwanese Hoklo, etc.)

@@MichaelSidneyTimpson but they can write what they mean on a piece of paper and all will understand. This cannot be said for many others. And you'd be wrong to say speakers of different dialects can't understand each other. It's true to a certain extent but not exactly. Mandarin is the people's language and aspiring connector of the sinic world.

@@n.c9653 yes there is a lot of nuances...and opinions, I realize. I get my information from first-hand sources living in my home...my own family who are native speakers in Mandarin and Hoklo. At the same time, one could theorectically write Korean and Vietnamese in Chinese characters as well, but they are absolutely not Chinese languages, in fact, not even related (except for borrowings.). And I do know Korean and Chinese, so I know that directly.

@@MichaelSidneyTimpson no.. You cannot write Korean or Vietnamese in Chinese Characters (especially for Vietnamese). For Koream and Japanese, they did borrow many Chinese characters but The so-called dialects in China share almost exactly the same written characters, grammar and sentence structures.

how about the natives like negritos?

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This is true!

Yes Dari is only used to communicate with non-Pashtuns there

Pashtuns does not = Pashto-speaking people exclusively. You are confusing an ethnic group with a language. Dari-speaking people are also Pashtuns, who make up the majority of the ethnic group in Afghanistan. Similarly, other ethnic groups (Tajik, Hazara or Uzbeks) can speak Pashto.

@@didd2810 This is completely false.

@@Zabi-S dari is only a lingua franca in Afghanistan. It's not a native tongue. The fact that Pakistani Pashtuns do not know Dari properly is proof of this.

North Africa is probably going to be a big country

It's clear he is Iranian lol, since he disregards also l the different Arabic dialects and downplays the amount of Arabic speakers in the Persian gulf side of Iran.

All of them! Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam, Punjabi, Dzongkha (Bhutanese), Sinhala, Burmese, Thai, Lao, Khmer

there are also scripts like these in maritime southeast asia but they are not common anymore

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In Indonesia there are: Javanese Sundanese Balinese Bugis-Makassarese Lampungnese Bataknese Rejangnese, etc They are used in street's name tags

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When Nepal better preserves and promotes languages like Maithili, Bhojpuri, Awadhi, Bajjika, and others even though the country where these languages come from and where they have the most speakers (ie India) does not... Ironic!

@@didd2810 These languages are in india too but are classified as dialects of Hindi.

Still not popular like punjabi Or bengali.. 😂

Amazing bro I speak Malayalam one of 6 classical language of our country

It'll be dead by the coming century since many Odias increasingly identify as Hindi speakers

Don't tell this to ultra-Nepali territorial nationalists. They've dreams all across the Himalayas and you've limited their origins to merely the Kathmandu valley.

Nah, I don't want a massive english-speaking country. It's going to be annoying.

Would be hard to define since not all languages are considered as separate by people

Under Mustafa Kemal, Turkey changed from Arabic script to Latin. One of the Central Asian countries, (possibly Kazakhstan?) is now changing their script from Cyrillic to Latin.

Agree, some of them indeed share the same root with the Burmese language but not dialect of Burmese, like Chin or Karen for example. More like Germany and Austrian have the same roots but different language or Germany and Dutch. And Some of them don't share the same root with Burmese at all like Shan and Mon who are more closer to Thai and Khmer respectively

Khmer and "Thai" aren't at all in a family group , the austroasiatic are the native to the mainland South East Asia however u could be right since "Thai" made up by alot ethics mostly Khmer and tai .

@@KdamSamout I'm not sure you understood what I said (although I myself didn't understand what you said either). It didn't say that Khmer and Thai are part of a common language family - because they're not. What I said was that some languages spoken in Myanmar, for example Mon, are part of the the same language family as Khmer (the Austroasiatic family), and some other languages spoken in Myanmar, for example the Shan languages, are part of the same family as Thaï, the (Tai-Kra-Dai family)

@@dragskcinnay3184 sure that's what I meant to clarify.

@@KdamSamout Alright, we're good then

You mean "sailer" not "sealer" sir

Yes, i am from mindanao and I call my language colloquially as bisaya, but I know that cebuano is the academic term.

@@johnramirez3247 I'm from Mindanao too. My first language is Cebuano. People here also speak that language. But no one really calls it Cebuano, most people call Cebuano as Bisaya or Binisaya.

@@johnramirez3247 yes, and also, I really hate it when some Filipinos refer Cebuano (Bisaya) as a dialect.

@@arc7495 same

How so? What's the major difference between standard Turkish and Kazakh?

@@Sharif_iraqi The pronunciation and words that are cognates sometimes are similar but not similar enough. Often the same words are used differently. Turkish and kazakh are as similar as for example german and dutch or french and spanish

@@ElSemih that's not so similar is it? Like what words?

Japanese is related to austronesian family, and Korean is related to Tungusic language family.😂However, due to the strong China culture, 70% of Japanese and Korean words come from Chinese.Bloodline, culture, architecture, religion and thought have all become the main body of China culture, while the local Shamanism culture and Shinto culture have become subcultures.😂

Japanese and Korean people hate China so much, but they keep promoting what they think is Japanese and Korean culture, but actually Chinese culture.🤣Koreans don't even publicize their national religion, Shamanism and culture at all.😂Shintoism and sex worship culture are only promoted on mythical occasions in Japan. Generally, the courtyards, tea ceremony, Zen, calligraphy, music and armor are all from China.😂

@@user-jj6mx3tc1g Why are you laughing-crying? It looks like you are mocking the other person when you do that

Maybe he still believes in the Altaic theory 😂 None the less Japonic and Austronesian hailed from the Yangtze civilization

😂😂😂 why are we laughing crying 😂😂?

only Indonesia and Philippines actually, due to the same sense of islanders identity, but then Malaya/Malaysia illegally colonized northern Borneo which should be Indonesian and Philippines territory, the unification was failed due to these Malaya's illegal attempt of annexation (which then backed by the British). Sarawak and Sabah belongs to Indonesia and Philippines respectively.

STOP CALL US 🇮🇩🇲🇾🇧🇳 "ASIA" WE ARE "SOUTH THOUSEND ISLANDER" WE ARE NOT NARROW EYES Maybe VIETNAMESE In Categories Family of ASIA Because Close With China Border and They Are Culture Same Like : Eat With Copstick, Chinese New Year Etc

Actually, that would be depressing.

That would make me sad but I think it's a good idea, as a few people only are aware of how diverse the native American languages used to be and still are !

@@paulochon7692 even i who is a creek native American didn't understand there was much difference until i was a teen.

you seriously counted the comments from the top? good on you.

Lol.. if you considered it like that, then turkey (turks) definitely not native to its own land.

​@@zhiaryassen1634 yes Turks are largely Anatolians and Greek lmao

@@zhiaryassen1634 Turkic civilisations came from central Asia...

Zhiryassen your absolutely correct, in fact only 100 years ago Constantinople/todays Istanbul was a majority Greek city. Greek inhabitants were forced out if luck or killed by Turks during the world war. Additionally presence of Ottomans rule barely goes back to 1400s. Turkish people are very much related to Mongolians and share many of the similar linguistics and genetics and very much oriental. But when traveling and you look around you don’t see too many orientals but you noticed people that look Greek, Arminians and Assyrians. These people were given a choice Between conversion to Islam and giving up There heritage and speak Turkish or Die. That’s todays Turkey and Azerbaijan reality.

It's really not It's actually more than that The north khurasan and central Anatolia isn't on this map

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@@Sharif_iraqi yeah he is right north Khorasan majority kurdish population because of one king this migration happened nader shah afshar force kurmanj Kurdish people from zagros to north Khorasan

@@Sharif_iraqi EXCHANGE KURD POPULATİON İN TURKEY KURDS İS İRANİC.

​@@Sharif_iraqi and what about Armenian lands that were snatched from them?

Only southern, western, eastern, north eastern. Northern and central are NOT.

ya. India didn't exist before 1947

as i know even they are turkic speaking people rule over iran, you're not one of them i don't know why you proud something you have never been achieved that. and also some german royal families rule over major European countries but i never saw any random person in germany going to youtube comments say the bulshiet about some german rule over some counteries but turks from turkey always proud something they never achieve that.

@@ariyannikdell3085 TURKS AND İRAN EXCHANGES POPULATİON TÜRKİC AZERİ POPULATİON GO TO TURKEY KURDS GO TO İRAN.

Lol those Turkic only ruled because they assimilated in Iranian cultures.

They are not similar at all

Tajiks are Indo-Europeans.

@@LalaLa-ze7kv Yes, this was what I suddenly understood. That opens up for greater understanding of this region and was an eye-opener for me. In my ignorance, I just viewed Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan as "the two small Central Asian former Soviet republics bordering China with a pre-dominantely Turkic population".

Yes Tajiks are an Iranic people. Kurds, Afghans, Balochis, Persians. All of them Iranic peoples.

Tajik shares a lot in common with Persian, it is Indo-Iranian, it can be groupef with Persian, Pashto and Dari

In another reality it would have a territory for western Armenian language, which only barely survives in the diaspora today, but sadly even Armenia itself as a country struggles to survive... Look at the Lachin corridor blockade for example... Thousands of people are dying of hunger right now and nobody does anything 😔

Uh... I doubt Minangkabau have Javanese influence....

I'm assuming you mean this for India in which case it is only true for a handful of states

@@didd2810 I rather meant Central Asia, the southeastern peninsula and Indonesia Especially Iran, Pakistan and the former Soviet states make little to no sense in their division About India, I personally wouldn't know if a division by language group, especially considering the Dravidian and Indo-European languages might make more sense. Northern Indians are far better off economically, hold more influential positions and are the picture which gets represented to the world. Internal tensions, especially under the current, highly hindu-nationalistic government, keep on rising as minorities get ignored or pushed out of day-to-day affairs. Myanmar is another case of "division through diversity"

Division by language would cause more conflict Africa, especially in the regions where there are multiple languages spoken. In Africa, the government language is usually a colonial one like English or French

@@cs0345 why though?

@@_MC529 Different language and ethnic groups often live in the same areas as each other and the boundaries of the ethnic groups are unclear, so you can't always just draw a line and say that one group should live here and another should live on the other side without a policy of ethnic cleansing, like what happened in India's partition. Not to mention there are thousands of ethnicities and languages spoken in Africa, so it wasn't viable to carve up Africa into so many smaller, weaker states