Ethnic groups in After Modern European Languages is Asia

## Asian people (European people)

### Total population

4,533,765,005 59.4% of the total world population(World population of 7.5 billion)

### Regions with significant populations

Nederlands (Centraal Azië), Français (Asie de l'Est), Español (sur de Asia), English (Southeast Asia), Português (oeste da Ásia)

### South, East and Southeast Asians (Eastern Asians)

China (PRC) 1,384,688,986 - India 1,296,834,042 - Indonesia 262,787,403 - Bangladesh 164,098,818 - Japan 126,168,156 - Philippines 100,006,900 - Vietnam 97,040,334 - Thailand 68,615,858 - South Korea 51,418,097 - Taiwan (ROC) 23,545,963 - Cambodia 15,288,489 - Hong Kong (SAR) 7,213,338 - Singapore 5,996,000

### West and Central Asians (Western Asians)

Iran 85,888,910 - Turkey 81,257,239 - Saudi Arabia 33,091,113 - Syria 19,454,263 - Kazakhstan 18,744,548 - Jordan 10,458,413 - United Arab Emirates - 9,701,315 - Israel 8,424,904 - Lebanon 5,469,612 - Palestine 4,683,000

### Languages

Languages of Asia (Dutch, English, French, Portuguese and Spanish among other minority Asian languages)

### Religion

Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Shinto, Judaism and others

### Established

March 10, 2021

The ancestral population of modern Asian people has its origins in the two primary prehistoric settlement centres - greater Southwest Asia and from the Mongolian plateau towards Northern China.

Migrations of distinct ethnolinguistic groups have probably occurred as early as 10,000 years ago. However, about 2.000 BCE early Iranian speaking people and Indo-Aryans have arrived in Iran and northern Indian subcontinent. Pressed by the Mongols, Turkic peoples oftenly migrated to the western and northern regions of the Central Asian plains. Prehistoric migrants from South China and Southeast Asia seem to have populated East Asia, Korea and Japan in several waves, where they gradually replaced indigenous people, such as the Ainu, who are of uncertain origin. Austroasiatic and Austronesian people establish in Southeast Asia between 5.000 and 2.000 BCE, partly merging with, but eventually displacing the indigenous Australo-Melanesians.

In terms of Asian people, there is an abundance of ethnic groups in Asia, with adaptations to the climate zones of the continent, which include arctic, subarctic, temperate, subtropical or tropical, as well as extensive desert regions in Central and Western Asia. The ethnic groups have adapted to mountains, deserts, grasslands, and forests, while on the coasts of Asia, resident ethnic groups have adopted various methods of harvest and transport. The types of diversity in Asia are cultural, religious, economic and historical.

Some groups are primarily hunter-gatherers- whereas others practice transhumance (nomadic lifestyle), have been agrarian for millennia, or adopted an industrial or urban lifestyle. Some groups or countries in Asia are completely urban (e.g., Qatar and Singapore); the largest countries in Asia with regard to population are the China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan, Philippines, Vietnam, Iran, Thailand, Burma, and South Korea. Colonisation of Asian ethnic groups and states by European peoples began in the late 1st millennium BCE, reaching its peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

## Nederlands (Centraal-Azië) (Written System)

Centraal-Azië, in de meest gebruikelijke definitie, wordt geacht te bestaan ​​uit vijf voormalige Socialistische Sovjetrepublieken: Kazachstan, Kirgizië, Tadzjikistan, Oezbekistan en Turkmenistan. In een breder perspectief zijn Xinjiang van West-China, Mongolië, Afghanistan en Noord-Pakistan inbegrepen. Turkse, Indo-Iraanse en Mongoolse volkeren vormen de algemene etniciteit.

De belangrijkste religies van Centraal-Azië zijn de islam (Turkse/Indo-Iraanse volkeren) en het boeddhisme (Mongolië). Centraal-Azië heeft een lange, rijke geschiedenis, voornamelijk gebaseerd op de geografische ligging langs de oude Zijderoute. Het is veroverd door Mongolen, Tibetanen, Timurids, Oezbeken, Perzen, Tataren, Russen, Afghanen en Sarmaten, en heeft dus een zeer aparte, levendige cultuur. De cultuur wordt beïnvloed door Chinese, Indiase, Joods/Hebreeuwse, Perzische, Afghaanse, Arabische, Turkse, Russische, Sarmatische en Mongoolse culturen.

De muziek van Centraal-Azië is rijk en gevarieerd en wordt wereldwijd gewaardeerd. Ondertussen is de Centraal-Aziatische keuken een van de meest prominente keukens van Azië, met keukens uit Pakistan, India, China en Azerbeidzjan die een aanzienlijke invloed vertonen van het voedsel van Centraal-Azië. Een van de meest bekende Centraal-Aziatische gerechten is kebab.

De literatuur van Centraal-Azië is verbonden met de Perzische literatuur, aangezien het historisch gezien een groot deel van zijn geschiedenis deel uitmaakte van het Perzische rijk. Bovendien, zittend op de kruising van de Zijderoute, heeft het tal van Chinese, Indiase en Arabische literaire werken.

## Français (Asie de l'Est) (Written System)

Les Asiatiques de l'Est sont un terme utilisé pour les groupes ethniques indigènes de l'Asie de l'Est, qui comprennent la Chine, Hong Kong, Macao, Taïwan, le Japon, la Mongolie, la Corée du Nord et la Corée du Sud. Les principaux groupes ethniques qui forment le noyau de l'Asie de l'Est sont les Han, les Coréens et les Yamato. Les autres groupes ethniques d'Asie de l'Est comprennent les Bai, les Hui, les Tibétains, les Mandchous, les Ryukyuan, les Ainu, les Zhuang, les Mongols et d'autres peuples mongols.

Les principales familles de langues d'Asie de l'Est sont les familles sinitique, japonaise et coréenne. Les autres familles de langues sont les langues tibéto-birmane, aïnoue, mongolique, toungouse, turque, miao-yao, tai-kadai, austronésienne et mon-khmer.

À travers les âges, la plus grande influence sur l'Asie de l'Est a été historiquement de la Chine, où l'étendue de son influence culturelle est généralement connue sous le nom de Sinosphère qui a jeté les bases de la civilisation est-asiatique. La culture chinoise a non seulement servi de fondement à sa propre société et civilisation, mais aussi à celles de ses voisins d'Asie de l'Est, le Japon et la Corée. La connaissance et l'ingéniosité de la civilisation chinoise et les classiques de la littérature et de la culture chinoises étaient considérés comme les fondements d'une vie civilisée en Asie de l'Est.  La Chine a servi de véhicule à travers lequel l'adoption de la philosophie éthique confucéenne, des systèmes de calendrier chinois, des systèmes politiques et juridiques, du style architectural, du régime alimentaire, de la terminologie, des institutions, des croyances religieuses, des examens impériaux mettant l'accent sur la connaissance des classiques chinois, de la philosophie politique et de la culture,  ainsi que le partage historique d'un système d'écriture commun reflété dans les histoires du Japon et de la Corée. La relation entre la Chine et son influence culturelle sur l'Asie de l'Est a été comparée à l'influence historique de la civilisation gréco-romaine sur l'Europe et le monde occidental. Les principales caractéristiques exportées par la Chine vers le Japon et la Corée comprennent des caractéristiques linguistiques dérivées du chinois, ainsi que des philosophies sociales et morales similaires dérivées de la pensée confucianiste.

L'écriture des caractères chinois Han est depuis longtemps un élément unificateur en Asie de l'Est en tant que véhicule d'exportation de la culture chinoise vers ses voisins d'Asie de l'Est. Les caractères chinois sont devenus la langue unificatrice de la politique bureaucratique et de l'expression religieuse en Asie de l'Est. chinoise a été transmise d'abord en Corée, au Vietnam au 1er siècle, puis au Japon, où elle constitue une composante majeure du système d'écriture japonais.  En Corée, Sejong le Grand a inventé l'alphabet hangul en 1443, qui deviendra plus tard le principal système orthographique de la langue coréenne au XIXe siècle. Au Japon, une grande partie de la langue japonaise est écrite en hiragana, katakana en plus des caractères chinois.

## Español (Asia del Sur) (Written System)

El sur de Asia, en definición general, está formado por los países de Afganistán, Bangladesh, Bután, India, Maldivas, Nepal, Pakistán y Sri Lanka. Los cinco estados del sur de la India y el noreste de Sri Lanka comparten una cultura dravidiana, debido a la prominencia de las lenguas dravídicas allí. Los brahuis de Pakistán también pertenecen al grupo étnico dravidiano. Sri Lanka tiene dos idiomas principales, el cingalés, que tiene raíces indo-arias, y el tamil, que tiene raíces dravídicas. Bangladesh y la provincia india de Bengala Occidental comparten un idioma y una cultura bengalíes comunes. Las provincias de Azad Kashmir y Gilgit-Baltistan de Pakistán comparten una herencia común Dardic y Tibetic con los territorios indios de Jammu y Kashmir y Ladakh. De manera similar, la provincia de Punjab en Pakistán y el estado indio de Punjab comparten una etnia, un idioma y una cultura punjabí comunes. En Pakistán, las dos regiones occidentales de Baluchistán y Khyber Pakhtunkhwa comparten una mayor herencia iraní y, mientras que las provincias de Sindh comparten una cultura más indo-aria. El iraní es más frecuente en Afganistán, con importantes hablantes de turco.

Las regiones de Nepal y partes de los estados y territorios indios de Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu y Cachemira, Ladakh, Sikkim y Uttarakhand tienen similitudes culturales con el Tíbet, siendo el budismo tibetano la religión dominante allí. Finalmente, los estados del noreste de la India de Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland y los grupos tribales de Assam y Tripura tienen afinidades culturales con el sudeste asiático.

Los butaneses a menudo se refieren en su literatura como "Bhote" (gente de Bhutia / Bhotia o Tibet). Siguen el budismo tibetano y es un elemento político y cultural dominante en el Bután moderno. Su idioma, Dzongkha, es el idioma nacional y desciende del antiguo tibetano.

El hinduismo, el budismo, el jainismo y el sijismo, religiones fundadas en la región que hoy es la India, se extienden por todo el subcontinente. El Islam y el cristianismo también tienen importantes historias específicas de regiones. Mientras que India y Nepal tienen una mayoría de personas que siguen el hinduismo, Sri Lanka y Bután tienen una mayoría de budistas junto con el hinduismo. El Islam es la segunda religión más grande después del hinduismo con países musulmanes como Pakistán y Bangladesh.

Las lenguas indo-arias se hablan en la mayor parte del norte, este, oeste y centro de la India; Nepal; Bangladesh; Pakistán y Sri Lanka. Los idiomas dravídicos se hablan en India, menos partes de Pakistán, Afganistán, Nepal, Maldivas, Bangladesh y Sri Lanka. Las lenguas tibeto-birmanas se hablan en las colinas de Bangladesh, Nepal, el norte de Pakistán, el norte y el noreste de la India. Las lenguas austroasiáticas se hablan en ciertas áreas del norte y el este de Bangladesh, partes de Nepal y dispersas en diferentes zonas de la India, concentradas principalmente alrededor de la meseta de Chota Nagpur y el estado de Meghalaya. Los idiomas iraníes son más frecuentes en Afganistán y Pakistán occidental. Los hablantes de turco son importantes en Afganistán y partes de Pakistán también.

## English (Southeast Asia) (Written System)

Southeast Asia is often split into two parts: Mainland Southeast Asia, comprising Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam; and Maritime Southeast Asia, which includes Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, East Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore. China has historically influenced the region more than India, most notably through the large Chinese populations in many of the countries of the region.

Demographically, Southeast Asia has had little Western immigration, although Western influence still exists due to the lasting legacy of colonialism. One example is the Philippines, which has been heavily influenced by Spain and slightly by the United States of America over the course of almost four centuries of colonisation.

A common feature found around the region is stilt houses, while another is rice paddy agriculture, which originated in the region thousands of years ago. Dance is also a very important feature of the culture, utilizing movements of the hands and feet perfected over thousands of years. Furthermore, the arts and literature of Southeast Asia is very distinctive as some have been influenced by Indian, Hindu, Chinese, Islamic and Buddhist literature.

## Português (Ásia Ocidental) (Written System)

A Ásia Ocidental é algumas vezes referida como "Sudoeste Asiático". A Ásia Ocidental consiste na Armênia, Azerbaijão, Bahrein, Chipre, Geórgia, Irã, Iraque, Israel, Jordânia, Kuwait, Líbano, Omã, Palestina, Catar, Arábia Saudita, Síria, Emirados Árabes Unidos, Iêmen, a maior parte da Turquia e parte de Egito.

Culturalmente, os grupos étnicos dominantes da região são árabes (cerca de 150 milhões), turcos (cerca de 60 milhões), persas (cerca de 50 milhões) e curdos (cerca de 35 milhões). Outras minorias indígenas incluem judeus (6,2 milhões), assírios (cerca de 400.000), armênios (cerca de 4,5 milhões), azerbaijanos (cerca de 40 milhões), mandeus, yazidis, circassianos e outros. Muitos dos países da Ásia Ocidental contêm desertos expansivos e, portanto, muitos grupos nômades existem hoje, principalmente os árabes beduínos.

## Other minorities and migrant groups

### Europeans (Colonial - March 2021)

At least 21 million of European nationalities and heritage live in Asia, representing 0.45% of the total population of Asia. The following is a list of people with such ancestry and nationality, including people of mixed heritage of part Asian and part European, living in Asian countries, also showing the main country of origin.

1. Philippines 🇵🇭 - 5 million (United Kingdom English-language, 4.7% of total population)
2. China 🇨🇳 - 4.2 million (France French-language, 0.31% of total population)
3. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 - 3.5 million (Netherlands Dutch-language, 19% of total population)
4. India 🇮🇳 - 1.7 million (Spain Spanish-language, 0.12% of total population)
5. Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 - 837,000 (Netherlands Dutch-language, 13.5% of total population)
6. Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 - 750,000 (Netherlands Dutch-language, 2.3% of total population)
7. United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 - 461,000 (Portugal Portuguese-language, 4.9% of total population)
8. Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 (Netherlands Dutch-language, 5.1% of total population) 297,913
9. Thailand 🇹🇭 - 250,000 (United Kingdom English-language, 0.36% of total population)
10. South Korea 🇰🇷 - 245,000 (France French-language, 0.48% of total population)
11. Hong Kong 🇭🇰 - 218,209 (France French-language, 3.1% of total population)
12. Indonesia 🇮🇩 - 189,000 (United Kingdom English-language, 0.071% of total population)
13. Pakistan 🇵🇰 - 149,253 (Spain Spanish-language, 0.07% of total population)
14. Syria 🇸🇾 - 120,000 (Portugal Portuguese-language, 0.7% of total population)
15. Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 - 119,300 (Portugal Portuguese-language, 1.2% of total population)
16. Qatar 🇶🇦 - 115,000 (Portugal Portuguese-language, 4.3% of total population)
17. Bangladesh 🇧🇩 - 110,138 (Spain Spanish-language, 0.06% of total population)
18. Cyprus 🇨🇾 - 109,462 (Portugal Portuguese-language, 9.1% of total population)
19. Japan 🇯🇵 - 106,000 (France French-language, 0.08% of total population)
20. Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 - 100,000 (Portugal Portuguese-language, 0.3% of total population)
21. Singapore 🇸🇬 - 76,900 (United Kingdom English-language, 1.3% of total population)
22. Tajikistan 🇹🇯 - 68,200 (Netherlands, Dutch-language, 1.1% of total population)
23. Jordan 🇯🇴 - 65,000 (Portugal Portuguese-language, 0.67% of total population)
24. Iran 🇮🇷 - 50,000 (Portugal Portuguese-language, 0.061% of total population)
25. Malaysia 🇲🇾 - 37,000 (United Kingdom English-language, 0.11% of total population)
26. Georgia 🇬🇪 - 26,453 (Portugal Portuguese-language, 0.7% of total population)
27. Lebanon 🇱🇧 - 25,000 (Portugal Portuguese-language, 0.41% of total population)
28. Taiwan 🇹🇼 - 21,000 (France French-language, 0.09% of total population)
29. Myanmar 🇲🇲 - 19,200 (United Kingdom English-language, 0.035% of total population)
30. Oman 🇴🇲 - 16,349 (Portugal Portuguese-language, 0.39% of total population)
31. Bahrain 🇧🇭 - 15,000 (Portugal Portuguese-language, 1% of total population)
32. Afghanistan 🇦🇫 - 13,000 (Spain Spanish-language, 0.037% of total population)
33. Kuwait 🇰🇼 - 13,000 (Portugal Portuguese-language, 0.031% of total population)
34. Macau 🇲🇴 - 13,000 (France French-language, 2.3% of total population)
35. Armenia 🇦🇲 - 11,911 (Portugal Portuguese-language, 0.4% of total population)
36. Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 - 8,856 (Spain Spanish-language, 0.04% of total population)
37. Iraq 🇮🇶 - 6,000 (Portugal Portuguese-language, 0.015% of total population)
38. Mongolia 🇲🇳 - 3,000 (France French-language, 0.1% of total population)
39. Nepal 🇳🇵- 3,000 (Spain Spanish-language, 0.01% of total population)
40. Vietnam 🇻🇳 - 2,700 (United Kingdom English-language, 0.002% of total population)
41. North Korea 🇰🇵 - 2,045 (France French-language, 0.008% of total population)
42. Maldives 🇲🇻 - 1,117 (Spain Spanish-language, 0.25% of total population)
43. Cambodia 🇰🇭 - 1,000 (United Kingdom English-language, 0.006% of total population)
44. Yemen 🇾🇪 - 1,000 (Portugal Portuguese-language, 0.003% of total population)
45. Laos 🇱🇦 - (United Kingdom English-language)
46. East Timor 🇹🇱 - (United Kingdom English-language)
47. Bhutan 🇧🇹 - (Spain Spanish-language)
48. Brunei 🇧🇳 - (United Kingdom English-language)
49. Egypt 🇪🇬 - (Portugal Portuguese-language)
50. Israel 🇮🇱 - (Portugal Portuguese-language)
51. Turkey 🇹🇷 - (Portugal Portuguese-language)
52. Palestine 🇵🇸 - (Portugal Portuguese-language)