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Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, [1] [2] is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. [3] . Around 1.4 billion people speak a Sino-Tibetan language. [4] . The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Sinitic languages.
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Proto-Sino-Tibetan (PST) is the hypothetical linguistic...
- Karenic
The Karen (/ k ə ˈ r ɛ n /) or Karenic languages are tonal...
- Yangshao Culture
The Yangshao culture (Chinese: 仰韶文化; pinyin: Yǎngsháo...
- Tibetic languages
This small group includes the Tibetic languages, as...
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan
- Origins
- Example Languages
- Evolution of Language
- Relation to Other Language Families
Some researchers think the Sino-Tibetan languages very likely came from the Huanghe in North-Central China (Zhongyuan). Others think they came from much further west, in southwest China or even Northeast India. Zhang et al. (2019) did a study of 109 Sino-Tibetan languages to suggest a Sino-Tibetan homeland in northern China near the Huanghe basin. ...
Qiang language is spoken in Gansu. It is agglutinative like other Altaic languages.Balti language (Balti is the biggest Sino Tibetan language in Pakistan. It's speakers number 0.5 million.)Meitei language (Manipuri language) is the most widely spoken Sino Tibetan language in India. Various other Sino-Tibetan languages are also spoken in Northeast India.)Tibetan is spoken by around 6 million people.Proto-Chinese and Proto-Tibeto-Burman had many different prefixes and suffixes. Proto-Chinese changed to Old Chinese around the Shang Dynasty. This is shown in the Book of songs. Nouns, verbs, and modifiers were all dependent on affixes (beginning of words) such as *s-, *p-, *-k. After the Warring State Period in China, Old Chinese started using to...
Sino-Tibetan may be related to the Altaic languages. Mang Mulin, a Mongolian linguistics professor at the Inner Mongolia Normal University, began studying the origin of Mongolian words in the late 1970s. There are links between Sino-Tibetan, Austroasiatic (from South China), and Austronesian(from Taiwan) languages. There may even be connections bet...
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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. Around 1.4 billion people speak a Sino-Tibetan language. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Sinitic languages.
Sinitic languages, commonly known as the Chinese dialects, are spoken in China and on the island of Taiwan and by important minorities in all the countries of Southeast Asia (by a majority only in Singapore ).
The Sinitic languages [a] ( simplified Chinese: 汉语族; traditional Chinese: 漢語族; pinyin: Hànyǔ zú ), often synonymous with the Chinese languages, are a group of East Asian analytic languages that constitute a major branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
