Four United Nations member states (China, Singapore, Myanmar, and Bhutan) have a Sino–Tibetan language as a main native language. Other languages of the family are spoken in the Himalayas, the Southeast Asian Massif, and the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau.

Mar 12, 2025 · Sino-Tibetan languages, group of languages that includes both the Chinese and the Tibeto-Burman languages. In terms of numbers of speakers, they constitute the world’s second largest language family (after Indo-European), including …

Sino-Tibetan (ST) is one of the largest language families in the world, with more first-language speakers than even Indo-European. The more than 1.1 billion speakers of Sinitic (the Chinese dialects) constitute the world's largest speech community.

Jun 10, 2020 · While Sino-Tibetan languages mostly span East Asia, its speakers aren’t limited by geography. In fact, Sino-Tibetan languages are used around the globe. In this article, we’ll look at which modern languages belong to this family, how …

The Sino-Tibetan or Trans-Himalayan languages are a language family spoken in Asia. This includes Chinese and the Tibeto-Burman languages and some 250 other languages of East Asia. Kra-Dai languages and Hmong–Mien languages are also sometimes included.

The Sino-Tibetan language family is one of the largest in the world. It is second only to the Indo-European language family in terms of number of speakers. The family consists of 403 highly differentiated languages with a vast geographical spread, great linguistic complexity, and a long historical record.

Sino-Tibetan languages are a major language family that includes languages spoken in China, Tibet, and neighboring regions. This family is known for its extensive diversity, with Mandarin Chinese being the most widely spoken language in the world.

Early in their history, ST speakers divided into two groups: the proto Tibeto-Burman speakers and the Sinitic speakers. They later migrated down the great river valleys into their present locations. The ST languages with the largest number of speakers are …

Apr 24, 2019 · Zhang et al. 5 present the results of a probability-testing approach used to analyse data relating to the origins and spread of the Sino-Tibetan languages, which are spoken today by 1.5...

May 6, 2019 · Phylogenetic analysis of the Sino-Tibetan language family, which includes Chinese, Tibetan, and Burmese, suggests that it originated about 7,200 years ago in North China and was linked to the Neolithic cultures of the late Cishan and early Yangshao.