Sinitic (Noun)
Meaning
A group of Sino-Tibetan languages.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The Sinitic languages are spoken by over a billion people worldwide, predominantly in China and surrounding regions.
- Linguists have identified several distinct Sinitic languages within the Sino-Tibetan family, including Mandarin, Wu, and Yue.
- Some Sinitic languages, like Cantonese and Taiwanese Hokkien, have retained more conservative features than others, such as Mandarin.
- The Sinitic languages exhibit a great deal of linguistic diversity, despite their geographic proximity to one another.
- Many Sinitic languages are mutually unintelligible, despite sharing common ancestral roots within the Sino-Tibetan language family.