WebSino-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 speakers of Chinese languages.Other Sino-Tibetan languages with large numbers of speakers include Burmese (33 million) and the Tibetic …

WebMeitei (/ ˈ m eɪ t eɪ /), also known as Manipuri (/ ˌ m æ n ɪ ˈ p ʊər i /, / m ʌ-/), is a Tibeto-Burman language of north-eastern India. It is spoken by around 1.8 million people, predominantly in the state of Manipur, but also by smaller communities in the rest of the country and in parts of neighbouring Myanmar and Bangladesh.It is native to the Meitei …

WebIn English, the term "Cantonese" can be ambiguous.Cantonese proper is the variety native to the city of Canton, which is the traditional English name of Guangzhou.This narrow sense may be specified as "Canton language" or "Guangzhou language". However, "Cantonese" may also refer to the primary branch of Chinese that contains Cantonese proper as well …

WebIn 2017, indigenous languages were given official status in Taiwan, as was the Hakka language. As of 2018, English was planned to become an official language in Taiwan, although this has not happened ever since. Taiwanese Hokkien is required for some activities but not others. For further information, see Languages of Taiwan.

WebNuosu or Nosu (ꆈꌠꉙ, transcribed as Nuo su hxop), also known as Northern Yi, Liangshan Yi, and Sichuan Yi, is the prestige language of the Yi people; it has been chosen by the Chinese government as the standard Yi language (Chinese: 彝语) and, as such, is the only one taught in schools, both in its oral and written forms.It was spoken by two million …

WebJin (simplified Chinese: 晋语; traditional Chinese: 晉語; pinyin: Jìnyǔ; simplified Chinese: 晋方言; traditional Chinese: 晉方言; pinyin: Jìn fāngyán) is a proposed group of varieties of Chinese spoken by roughly 63 million people in northern China, including most of Shanxi province, much of central Inner Mongolia, and adjoining areas in Hebei, Henan, and …

WebThe southernmost group is the Karen languages, spoken by three million people on both sides of the Burma–Thailand border.They differ from all other Tibeto-Burman languages (except Bai) in having a subject–verb–object word order, attributed to contact with Tai–Kadai and Austroasiatic languages.. The most widely spoken Tibeto-Burman language is …

WebThe Tibetic languages form a well-defined group of languages descended from Old Tibetan (7th to 9th centuries). According to Tournadre (2014), there are 50 languages, which split into over 200 dialects or could be group into 8 dialect continua. These languages are spoken in the Tibetan Plateau and in the Himalayas in Gilgit-Baltistan, Aksai Chin, …

Webwǒ I 给 gěi give 你 nǐ you 一本 yìběn one- CLF 书 shū book 我 给 你 一本 书 wǒ gěi nǐ yìběn shū I give you {one-CLF} book In southern dialects, as well as many southwestern and Lower Yangtze dialects, the objects occur in the reverse order. Most varieties of Chinese use post-verbal particles to indicate aspect, but the particles used vary. Most Mandarin …

WebMin (simplified Chinese: 闽语; traditional Chinese: 閩 語; pinyin: Mǐnyǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bân-gú / Bân-gír / Bân-gí / Mân-ú; BUC: Mìng-ngṳ̄) is a broad group of Sinitic languages spoken by about 30 million people in Fujian province as well as by the descendants of Min speaking colonists on Leizhou peninsula and Hainan, or assimilated natives of Chaoshan, parts of …