Editing Languages of Asia (section)

===Small families of Asia===
Although dominated by major languages and families, there are number of minor families and isolates in [[South Asia]] and [[Southeast Asia]]. From west to east, these include:

*[[Hattic language|Hattic]], an unclassified language in Anatolia.
*extinct languages of the [[Fertile Crescent]] such as [[Sumerian language|Sumerian]] and [[Elamite language|Elamite]].
*extinct languages of South Asia; mainly the unclassified [[Harappan language]]
*small language families and isolates of the [[Indian subcontinent]]: [[Burushaski]], [[Kusunda language|Kusunda]], and [[Nihali language|Nihali]]. The [[Vedda language|Vedda]] language of [[Sri Lanka]] is likely an isolate that has mixed with [[Sinhala language|Sinhala]].
*the two [[Andamanese languages|Andamanese]] language families: [[Great Andamanese languages|Great Andamanese]] and [[Ongan languages|Ongan]]; [[Sentinelese language|Sentinelese]] remains undocumented to date, and hence unclassified.
*unclassified languages in Southeast Asia: [[Kenaboi language|Kenaboi]].
*the difficult to classify [[Language isolates and independent language families in Arunachal|Arunachal languages]]: [[Digaro languages|Digaro]], [[Hrusish languages|Hrusish]] (including the [[Miji languages]]<ref name="Blench2015">Blench, Roger. 2015. [https://www.academia.edu/12657496/The_Mijiic_languages_distribution_dialects_wordlist_and_classification ''The Mijiic languages: distribution, dialects, wordlist and classification'']. m.s.</ref>), [[Midzu languages|Midzu]], [[Puroik language|Puroik]], [[Siangic languages|Siangic]], and [[Kho-Bwa languages|Kho-Bwa]].
*[[Hmong–Mien languages|Hmong–Mien]] (Miao–Yao) scattered across southern China and Southeast Asia
*a few "[[Papuan languages|Papuan]]" (Non-Austronesian) families of the central and eastern Malay Archipelago: such as the [[Timor-Alor-Pantar languages|Timor-Alor-Pantar]] and [[North Halmahera languages|North Halmahera]] languages, and the little known extinct [[Tambora language]] of [[Sumbawa]]. Numerous additional families are spoken in Indonesian [[New Guinea]], which is generally considered to part of [[Oceania]].