- Sino-Tibetan
- noun Date: 1920 a language family comprising Tibeto-Burman and Chinese
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Sino-Tibetan
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Sino-Tibetan — can refer to:* Sino Tibetan languages * Sino Tibetan peoples … Wikipedia
Sino-Tibetan — [sī΄nō ti bet′ n] n. a family of languages spoken in central and Southeast Asia, including the Sinitic and Tibeto Burman languages … English World dictionary
Sino-Tibetan — adjective a) Of, or relating to, both China and Tibet Sino Tibetan relations are more complicated than the media portrays it. b) Of the , one of the major language families. Mandarin, Burmese and Tibetan all belong to the Sino Tibetan language… … Wiktionary
Sino-Tibetan — /suy noh ti bet n, sin oh /, n. a family of languages including esp. Burmese, Tibetan, and the various local languages and dialects whose speakers share literary Chinese as their standard language. [1915 20; SINO + TIBETAN] * * * … Universalium
Sino-Tibetan — noun a large language family of eastern Asia which includes Chinese, Burmese, Tibetan, and (in some classifications) Thai. adjective relating to Sino Tibetan … English new terms dictionary
Sino-Tibetan — noun the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia • Syn: ↑Sino Tibetan language • Regions: ↑China, ↑People s Republic of China, ↑mainland China, ↑Communist China, ↑Red China, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Sino-Tibetan languages — Sino Tibetan Geographic distribution: East Asia Linguistic classification: One of the world s major language families. Subdivisions: Sinitic Tibeto Burman ISO 639 … Wikipedia
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 about 65 million people from northern Pakistan east to Vietnam, and… … Universalium
Sino-Tibetan peoples — The term Sino Tibetan peoples is used to describe a people speaking a Sino Tibetan language.PeoplesSino Tibetan peoples are divided into two branches: Chinese peoples and Tibeto Burman peoples.*Chinese peoples: **Han Chinese **Hui **Dungan… … Wikipedia
Sino-Tibetan language speakers — The Sino Tibetan language family is a high level grouping of languages, at the same level as Indo European, with over a billion speakers worldwide. On the basis of historical reconstruction of vocabulary, the nearly 300 languages in this family… … Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture
Sino-Tibetan language — noun the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia • Syn: ↑Sino Tibetan • Regions: ↑China, ↑People s Republic of China, ↑mainland China, ↑Communist China, ↑Red China, ↑PRC … Useful english dictionary
