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 …

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.

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 …

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

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 …

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WebThe Sinitic languages (漢語族/汉语族), often synonymous with "Chinese languages", are a group of East Asian analytic languages that constitute the major branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.It is frequently proposed that there is a primary split between the Sinitic languages and the rest of the family (the Tibeto-Burman languages).This view is …

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.

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.

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...