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  1. The ancestral Proto-Sino-Tibetan language is thought to have originated somewhere in the Himalayan plateau, the source of the great rivers of East and Southeast Asia, including the Yellow, Yangtze, Mekong, Brahmaputra, and Irrawaddy. Scholars hypothesize that this ancestral language split into Proto-Chinese and Proto-Tibeto-Burman around 4,000 BC.
    Burmese: Myanmar
    Dzongka: Bhutan
    Tamang: One of tne official languages of Nepal.
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    What is the Sino-Tibetan language family?
    The Sino-Tibetan language family is one of the largest in the world. It boasts more than 400 languages and over a billion native speakers. Pretty impressive stuff. While Sino-Tibetan languages mostly span East Asia, its speakers aren’t limited by geography. In fact, Sino-Tibetan languages are used around the globe.
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    Is there a genetic link between the Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European languages?
    Gao also suggested a genetic link between the Uralic and Sinitic languages ( Sino-Uralic ). August Conrad proposed the Sino-Tibetan-Indo-European language family. This hypothesis holds that there is a genetic relationship between the Sino-Tibetan language family and the Indo-European language family.
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    How many languages are in the Tibeto-Chinese family?
    Alternative Title: Tibeto-Chinese languages. Sino-Tibetan languages, group of languages that includes both the Chinese and the Tibeto-Burman languages. In terms of numbers of speakers, they constitute the world’s second largest language family (after Indo-European), including more than 300 languages and major dialects.
    What is the consonant system of the Sino-Tibetan languages?
    The consonant systems of Sino-Tibetan languages are characterized by a contrast between unaspirated and aspirated voiceless stops and affricates, e.g., /p – pʰ/, ts – tsʰ/. Many Sino-Tibetan languages are tonal. The number of tones varies from language to language.
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    August Conrad proposed the Sino-Tibetan-Indo-European language family. This hypothesis holds that there is a genetic relationship between the Sino-Tibetan language family and the Indo-European language family. The earliest comparative linguistic study of Chinese and Indo-European languages was … See more

    Sino-Tibetan, also cited 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 … See more

    Most of the current spread of Sino-Tibetan languages is the result of historical expansions of the three groups with the most speakers – Chinese, Burmese and Tibetic – replacing an unknown number of earlier languages. These groups also have the longest literary … See more

    Word order
    Except for the Chinese, Bai, Karenic, and Mruic languages, the usual word order in Sino-Tibetan languages is object–verb. However, Chinese and Bai differ from almost all other subject–verb–object languages in the … See more

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    A genetic relationship between Chinese, Tibetan, Burmese and other languages was first proposed in the early 19th century and is now broadly accepted. The initial focus on languages of civilizations with long literary traditions has been broadened to include less … See more

    Several low-level branches of the family, particularly Lolo-Burmese, have been securely reconstructed, but in the absence of a secure reconstruction of a Sino-Tibetan See more

    Beyond the traditionally recognized families of Southeast Asia, a number of possible broader relationships have been suggested. See more

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    26 rows · Mar 10, 2019 · The Sino-Tibetan language family is one of the largest in the world. It is second only to the ...

    • Burmese: Myanmar
    • Tamang: One of tne official languages of Nepal.
    • Dzongka: Bhutan
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    Sino-Tibetan languages, group of languages that includes both the Chinese and the Tibeto-Burman languages. In terms of numbers of speakers, they constitute the world’s second largest language family (after Indo-European ), including …

    Which language is the most important in the Sino-Tibetan family?
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    • The Chinese Component
      By any criterion (number of speakers, antiquity of documented written history, cultural significance, influence on other languages) Chinese ranks as one of the most important languages in the world. Yet the non-alphabetic nature of the Chinese writing system has posed …
    • The Tibeto-Burman Component
      The key component of ST, the branch with the most numerous and highly differentiated individual languages, is TB. The existence of the TB family was posited as early as the 1850's, when it was noticed that many words in "Written Tibetan" (WT), attested since the 7th c. A.D., appeared cog…
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