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Sino-Tibetan language

DEFINITIONS OF: Sino-Tibetan language

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n the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia

Synonyms:
Sino-Tibetan
Types:
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Sinitic, Sinitic language
a group of Sino-Tibetan languages
Tibeto-Burman, Tibeto-Burman language
a branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay Peninsula
Kadai, Kadai language, Kam-Tai
a family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia
Chinese
any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system
Qiang, Qiangic
the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Sichuan
Bai, Baic
the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan
Himalayish
the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Tibet and Nepal and Bhutan and Sikkim
Kamarupan
the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in northeastern India and adjacent regions of western Burma
Karen, Karenic
the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands
Burmese-Yi, Lolo-Burmese
the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in northern Burma and Yunnan
Kachin, Kachinic
Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in northernmost Burma and adjacent China and India
Kam-Sui
a group of Kadai languages
Tai
the most widespread and best known of the Kadai family of languages
Type of:
natural language, tongue
a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
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