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The highlands stretching from northeast India to northern Myanmar contain over 100 highly diverse Sino-Tibetan languages. Other Sino-Tibetan languages are found along the southern slopes of the Himalayas and the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau.
- 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...
- Tibetan language
The Tibetan language or Standard Tibetan is a Tibetic...
- 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...
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.
The Tibeto-Burman family of languages (often considered a sub-group of the Sino-Tibetan language family) is spoken in various central and south Asian countries, including Myanmar (Burma), Tibet, northern Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, parts of central China ( Guizhou, Hunan ), northern parts of Nepal, north-eastern parts of Bangladesh, Bhutan, western...
Sino-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.
