The
Tibeto-Burman languages are the non-
Sinitic members of the
Sino-Tibetan language family, over 400 of which are spoken throughout the highlands of
Southeast Asia as well as certain parts of
East Asia and
South Asia. The name derives from the most widely spoken of these languages, namely
Burmese (over 32 million speakers) and the
Tibetic languages (over 8 million). Most of the other languages are spoken by much smaller communities, and many of them have not been described in detail.