sino-tibetan in English

adjective
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of, relating to, or denoting a large language family of eastern Asia whose branches include Sinitic (Chinese), Tibeto-Burman (Burmese and Tibetan), and, in some classifications, Tai (Thai and Lao). They are tonal languages, but the exact relationships among them are unclear.
A member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages, Thai is one of the oldest languages in East or Southeast Asia.
noun
1
the Sino-Tibetan language family.
Balti, spoken in the extreme Northeast, belongs to the Sino-Tibetan , rather than the Indo-European, language family.

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1. Chinese languages, principal language group of eastern Asia, belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family

2. Chirr is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Chirr Naga (Yimchunger) community in northeast India

3. This dissertation a monograph about the determinative sentence ( DS ) in the languages of Sino - Tibetan family ( ST ) .

4. 12 Miao people have their own language, Miao Miao, Tao is a Sino - Tibetan language family Hmong branch.

5. Conclusions Zangzu , Tuzu , Yizu , Pumi, Jino , and Baizu, which belong to Sino - Tibetan language family, carry a high YAP ? +? frequency.

6. 16 Passive expression exists in all Sino-Tibetan languages, however they do not have the same degree of passiveness and lack a common way to express the concept.

7. Austronesian roots seem to share features with the sesquisyllabic structures of Austroasiatic and Sino-Tibetan, where the stem is prefixed by a ‘minor syllable’, usually C on the mainland13

8. The prevalence of Y-DNA Haplogroup O among Austro-Asiatic peoples suggests a common ancestry with the Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, and Hmong–Mien peoples some 35,000 years ago in China.

9. …use of vowel gradation (called Ablaut) is well known from Indo-European languages (e.g., the vowel change in English sing, sang, sung) and is found in several Sino-Tibetan languages, including Chinese and Tibetan

10. Amoy - any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province Fukien, Fukkianese, Hokkianese, Min dialect, Taiwanese, Min Chinese - any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system