Sino-Tibetan
Eastern language family
Sino-Tibetan is a major language family of Asia, including Chinese, Tibetan, Burmese, and hundreds of related languages spoken from China through Southeast Asia.
The term combines Sino- (Chinese) with Tibetan to name the family's two most prominent branches.
Sino-Tibetan languages are spoken by more people than any family except Indo-European.
Related tongues from one source
- MandarinHigh-ranking government official
- BurmeseOf a Southeast Asian nation
- CantoneseSouthern Chinese dialect
- tonalRelating to pitch
phonology · morphology · isolating · classifier · syntax · reconstruction · cognates · lexicon
Asia's highest range
- MyanmarRenamed Southeast Asian nation
- ChinaEast Asian superpower
- NepalSouth Asian mountain nation
- BhutanHimalayan mountain kingdom
Southeast Asia · highlands · plateau · river valleys · Yunnan · Sichuan · Bengal · Assam
China's largest ethnicity
- BurmeseOf a Southeast Asian nation
- KarenEntitled, demanding woman
- ethnic diversityVaried cultural backgrounds present
- minoritySmaller part of whole
indigenous · tribal · peoples · identity · community · heritage
Systematic grouping by traits
- taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
- BenedictMale name, blessed
- controversyProlonged public disagreement
- debateFormal argument on issues
branching · cladistics · phylogeny · methodology · reconstruction · hypothesis · evidence · scholarship
language family
Related tongues from one source
- MandarinHigh-ranking government official
- BurmeseOf a Southeast Asian nation
- CantoneseSouthern Chinese dialect
tonal · phonology · morphology · isolating · classifier · syntax · reconstruction · cognates · lexicon · subgrouping
Himalayas
Asia's highest range
Bhutan · Southeast Asia · highlands · plateau · river valleys · Yunnan · Sichuan · Bengal · Assam · migration
Han
China's largest ethnicity
- BurmeseOf a Southeast Asian nation
- KarenEntitled, demanding woman
- ethnic diversityVaried cultural backgrounds present
minority · indigenous · tribal · peoples · identity · community · heritage
classification
Systematic grouping by traits
- taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
- BenedictMale name, blessed
- controversyProlonged public disagreement
debate · branching · cladistics · phylogeny · methodology · reconstruction · hypothesis · evidence · scholarship · research
- languagesEnglish, Arabic, Chinese, German, French
- Language familiesIndo-European, Afro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Dravidian, Turkic
- language termsgrammar, word, vocabulary, syntax, synonym
- Asian languagesMandarin, Thai, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Hindi
- historical linguisticslanguage families, cognates, proto-languages, proto-language, Indo-European
Sino-TibetanIndo-European
Vast language family
Niger-Congo · Austronesian · Dravidian · Turkic · Germanic