Sino-tibetan Language (Noun)
Meaning
The family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The Burmese language, a Sino-Tibetan language, is spoken by approximately 32 million people worldwide.
- Researchers believe that the Sino-Tibetan language family may have originated in the region now known as northern China around 4000-3000 BCE.
- There are approximately 403 Sino-Tibetan languages, making it the second largest language family in the world by the number of distinct languages.
- In this case, many scholars still maintain that these isolates constitute branches of Sino-Tibetan that are on a par with Sino-Bodic or at least certain groups within the Sino-Bodic.
- Studies in linguistic evolution point out the use of dialectometry for researching variation across Chinese as a part of Sino-Tibetan languages in Sino-Bodic families