East Asian languages

East Asian languages describe two notional groupings of languages in East and Southeast Asia:Languages which have been greatly influenced by Classical Chinese and the Chinese writing system, in particular Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese (also known as CJKV).The larger grouping of languages including the CJKV area as well as several language groups of Southeast Asia including other Sino-Tibetan, Tai-Kadai, and Austronesian languages. Although most of these languages are genetically unrelated, they share many areal features due to geographic proximity. This is also known as the East Asian sprachbund.
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