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- Chinese belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language group. Sino-Tibetan is a major genetic grouping of languages like the Indo-European family to which English belongs (along with German, French, Hindu, etc.).
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[citation needed] 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 the 18th century Nordic scholar Olaus Rudbeck .
Apr 24, 2019 · 24 April 2019. The origin and spread of the Sino-Tibetan language family. A robust computational approach with added finesse provides evidence to support the view that the Sino-Tibetan...
- Randy J. LaPolla
- 2019
About Sino-Tibetan linguistics. 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 Chinese in a wider genetic context.
Apr 24, 2019 · Abstract. The study of language origin and divergence is important for understanding the history of human populations and their cultures. The Sino-Tibetan language family is the second largest...
- Menghan Zhang, Shi Yan, Wuyun Pan, Wuyun Pan, Li Jin, Li Jin
- 2019
Nov 27, 2020 · Our findings illustrate that key aspects of phylogenetic history can be replicated in this complex language family, and calls for a more nuanced understanding of the first Sino-Tibetan...
- Hanzhi Zhang, Ting Ji, Mark Pagel, Ruth Mace
- 2020
May 6, 2019 · The vast majority of Sino-Tibetan speakers speak a Chinese, or Sinitic, language. The Sinitic languages, whose ancestor was spoken about 2,000 y ago, form a homogeneous group in the eastern half of the Sino-Tibetan area.
May 6, 2019 · May 6, 2019. Source: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Summary: The Sino-Tibetan language family consists of more than 400 languages spoken by around 1.4 billion speakers...
