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sino-tibetan language
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Sino-Tibetan language
n.
family of languages of eastern Asia that includes Chinese Sinitic and Burmese and Tibetan
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Sino-Tibetan languages
The Sino-Tibetan languages, sometimes known as Tibeto-Burman or Trans-Himalayan, are a family of more than 400 languages spoken in East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia. The family is second only to the Indo-European languages in terms of the number of native speakers. The Sino-Tibetan languages with the most native speakers are the varieties of Chinese (1.2 billion speakers), Burmese (33 million) and the Tibetic languages (8 million). Many Sino-Tibetan languages are spoken by small communities in remote mountain areas and are poorly documented.
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Sino-Tibetan language
Noun
1. the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia
(synonym) Sino-Tibetan
(hypernym) natural language, tongue
(hyponym) Sinitic, Sinitic language
(classification) China, People's Republic of China, mainland China, Communist China, Red China, PRC
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Sino-Tibetan language
n.
sino-tibetanske sprog, sprog familie hjemmehørende i det østlige Asien inkluderende kinesisk sinitisk, buemesisk og tibetansk
