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.

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 …

WebMay 17, 2006 · There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them, both diachronic and synchronic, has multiplied in the last few decades. This volume includes overview articles …

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 …

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 …

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 Sino-Tibetan languages are a family of more than 400 languages spoken in East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia.The family is second only to the Indo-European languages in terms of the number of native speakers. The Sino-Tibetan languages with the most native speakers are the varieties of Chinese (1.2 billion speakers), Burmese (33 …

WebNov 10, 2022 · Sino-Tibetan Languages. Sino-Tibetan, also known as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Chinese languages. Other Sino-Tibetan languages with large numbers of speakers …

WebSino-Tibetan languages 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, and Tai, or Thai. One school of thought, however, assigns the …