WebSino-Tibetan languages, Superfamily of languages whose two branches are the Sinitic, or Chinese, languages and the Tibeto-Burman family, an assemblage of several hundred very diverse languages spoken by some 65 million people from northern Pakistan east to Vietnam and from the Tibetan Plateau south to the Malay Peninsula.

WebAt the end of the 18th and during the first half of the 19th century a great number of languages were investigated by Western scholars in the Himalayas, in India, and in China, and word lists and grammatical sketches began to appear. By the late 19th century a foundation had been laid for Sino-Tibetan comparative studies. The comparative method …

WebJun 11, 2018 · Sino-Tibetan languages, family of languages spoken by over a billion people in central and SE Asia. This linguistic family is second only to the Indo-European stock in the number of its speakers. It is usually said to have three subfamilies: Tibeto-Burman, Chinese [1], and Tai, or Thai.

WebThis is a Swadesh list of Sino-Tibetan languages of India languages, specifically Kinnauri, Stod Bhoti, Raji and Raute, compared with that of English.. Presentation [] For further information, including the full final version of the list, read the Wikipedia article: Swadesh list. American linguist Morris Swadesh believed that languages changed at measurable …

WebThough the division of Sino-Tibetan into Sinitic and Tibeto-Burman branches (e.g. Benedict, Matisoff) is widely used, some historical linguists criticize this classification, as the non-Sinitic Sino-Tibetan languages lack any shared innovations in phonology or morphology to show that they comprise a clade of the phylogenetic tree.

WebOld Chinese possessed initial consonant clusters containing - l - as a second element, so Proto-Sinitic can reasonably be supposed to have had the same three medial elements as Proto-Tibeto-Burman: - y -, - l -, and - r -. There are few, if any, traces in Old Chinese of the more complicated clusters and the minor syllables of Tibeto-Burman.

WebThe Pyu language (Pyu: ; Burmese: ပျူ ဘာသာ, IPA: [pjù bàðà]; also Tircul language) is an extinct Sino-Tibetan language that was mainly spoken in what is now Myanmar in the first millennium CE.It was the vernacular of the Pyu city-states, which thrived between the second century BCE and the ninth century CE. Its usage declined starting in the late ninth …

WebList of abbreviations xix PART 1 OVERVIEW CHAPTERS 1 1 A subgrouping of the Sino-Tibetan languages: the interaction between language contact, change, and inheritance Graham Thurgood 3 1 Introduction 3 2Sino-Tibetan 6 3 Chinese 6 4 Tibeto-Burman 7 References 20 2 Overview of Sino-Tibetan morphosyntax Randy J. LaPolla 22 1Sino …

WebMajor language families By number of languages. Ethnologue 24 (2021) lists the following families that contain at least 1% of the 7,139 known languages in the world: . Trans–New Guinea (482 languages) (6.8%); Sino-Tibetan (455 languages) (6.4%); Indo-European (448 languages) (6.3%); Australian [dubious] (381 languages) (5.4%); Afro-Asiatic (377 …

WebAug 27, 2022 · This is a Swadesh list of Sino-Tibetan languages, specifically Chinese, Burmese, Tibetan, Tangut, Japhug, Drung, Kurtop, Tangsa and Yakkha, compared with that of English. 1-25: 26-50: 51-75: 76-100: 101-125: 126-150: 151-175: 176-207: List № Gloss Old Chinese Written Burmese Written Tibetan Tangut Kamnyu Japhug

WebJun 17, 2022 · Appendix:Stable lexical roots in Sino-Tibetan languages - Matisoff (2009) Branches . Open-access online lexical resources for each Sino-Tibetan branch are listed below. Branches for which lexical data is available in the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (2015) is noted as (STEDT). Western Himalayas

WebThe language described in this study is an Eastern dialect of Kayah Li. Kayah in turn is a Central Karen language, and Karen is a major subdivision of the Tibeto-Burman branch of Sino-Tibetan. Kayah Li is thus very closely related to languages like Bwe and Bre; less closely to other Karen languages like Sgaw, Pho and...

WebThe Language Vitality Initiative partnered with Nankai University (NKU) in Tianjin, China, to offer the Sino-Tibetan Language Research Methodology Workshop. The workshop is a two-week series of courses that train thirty-five to forty-five students each year from Tibetan and other minority nationalities and languages in linguistics and language description, …