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The Chinese Component
By any criterion (number of speakers, antiquity of documented written history, c…
The Tibeto-Burman Component
The key component of ST, the branch with the most numerous and highl… See moreThe Proto-Sino-Tibetan (PST) homeland seems to have been somewhere on the Himalayan plateau, where the great rivers of East and Southeast Asia (including the Yellow, Yangtze, Mekong, … See more
Though the total number of TB speakers is only about 56 million, smaller than for Tai-Kadai or Mon-Khmer/Austroasiatic, the number of individual TB lan… See more
The field of ST linguistics is only about 50 years old, and has been a flourishing object of inquiry for only the past 25. Scholars have been trying since the mid-19th century to situate Chin… See more
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The Sino-Tibetan Language Family - Structure & Dialects - MustGo
https://www.mustgo.com/worldlanguages/sino-tibetan...WebMar 10, 2019 · The Sino-Tibetan language family is one of the largest in the world. It is second only to the Indo-European language family in …
- Burmese: Myanmar
- Tamang: One of tne official languages of Nepal.
- Dzongka: Bhutan
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- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sino-Tibetan-languages
WebSino-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 …
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The Sino-Tibetan family has 400 languages. Fortunately for us, we can break this language family into 4 slightly more bite-sized branches. First up is Sinitic: The Sinitic languages include Mandarin and other Chinese languages(such as Wu, Yue, Jin, Min and Hakka). Next, we have Burmese, a branch of several languages spo… - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Tibetan_languages
Beyond the traditionally recognized families of Southeast Asia, a number of possible broader relationships have been suggested.
The "Sino-Caucasian" hypothesis of Sergei Starostin posits that the Yeniseian languages and North Caucasian languages form a clade with Sino-Tibetan. The Sino-Caucasian hypothesis has been expanded by others to "Dené–Caucasian" to include the Na-Dené languages of North America, B…Wikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA license- Proto-language: Proto-Sino-Tibetan
- Linguasphere: 79- (phylozone)
- https://phys.org/news/2019-05-sino-tibetan-language-family-revealed.html
WebMay 06, 2019 · The Sino-Tibetan family comprises about 500 languages spoken across a …
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WebSino-Tibetan languages, family of languages spoken by over a billion people in central …
- https://en.tibet3.com/news/tibet/2019-05-10/4643.html
WebMay 10, 2019 · Sino-Tibetan language family originates 7,200 years ago in northern …
