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5 days ago · 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 (仰韶文化, pinyin: Yǎngsháo wénhuà) was a...
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan
3 days ago · Chinese languages form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The spoken varieties of Chinese are usually considered by native speakers to be dialects of a single language. However, their lack of mutual intelligibility means they are sometimes considered to be separate languages in a family .
- 1.35 billion (2022)
2 days ago · Cantonese [1] is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. It is the traditional prestige variety of the Yue Chinese group, which has over 82.4 million native speakers. [2] .
Apr 20, 2024 · The Sino-Tibetan language family, the second-largest in the world after Indo-European, consists of more than 400 languages and dialects and has approximately 1.5 billion native speakers. The origins and divergence in time and place of the Sino-Tibetan language family have long been controversial topics debated among linguists.
5 days ago · Dai Ethnic Group. The Dai ethnic group, which numbers 1,158,989, is distributed throughout the Dai Autonomous Region and the Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in Xishuangbanna in the southern part of Yunnan Province. In the past, they were called 'Baiyue', meaning a vast living area. Therefore, they have established a close relationship ...
2 days ago · A number of works treat 'Central Tibetan' without referring more specifically to dialect. Grammars of 'Central Tibetan include Sandberg (1894), and Roerich and Phuntshok (1957) both of which include fairly extensive vocabularies. Early handbooks include Lewin (1879), Sandberg (1894), and Henderson (1903), Bell (1905).
Apr 20, 2024 · A list of these, with their Austronesian cognates, was given in Sagart (2005). Guillaume Jacques (2017) has studied the correspondences of the Buyang (Langjia) preinitial qa 0 – in the Kam-Tai branch. A correspondence for Buyang preinitial qa 0 – has now been observed in Hlai dialects: tsɯ²- in Baoding and kɯ 2 – in Heitu.
