Sino-Tibetan languages

E24959
language family macrofamily

The Sino-Tibetan languages are a major language family of East, Southeast, and South Asia that includes Chinese, Tibetan, Burmese, and numerous related languages spoken by over a billion people.

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All labels observed (7)

Label Occurrences
Sino-Tibetan languages canonical 265
Sino-Tibetan 56
Sino-Tibetan language family 22

Statements (70)

Predicate Object
instanceOf language family ⓘ
macrofamily ⓘ
alternativeName Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
surface form: Trans-Himalayan languages
approximateNumberOfSpeakers >1000000000 ⓘ
classificationIssue relationship between Sinitic and Tibeto-Burman is debated ⓘ
commonWordOrder SOV ⓘ
SVO ⓘ
continent Asia ⓘ
glottologCode sino1245 ⓘ
hasCharacteristic analytic morphology in many branches ⓘ
complex verbal morphology in some branches ⓘ
use of classifiers ⓘ
hasISOFamilyCode sit ⓘ
hasSubfamily Chinese language ⓘ
surface form: Sinitic languages

Sino-Tibetan languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Tibeto-Burman languages
hasSubgroupingDebate true ⓘ
includesLanguage Bodo ⓘ
surface form: Bodo language

Burmese language ⓘ
Cantonese ⓘ
Chinese language ⓘ
Dzongkha ⓘ
Jingpo language ⓘ
Karen languages ⓘ
Kiranti languages ⓘ
Kuki-Chin languages ⓘ
Lepcha language ⓘ
Tibetan ⓘ
surface form: Lhasa Tibetan

Loloish languages ⓘ
Standard Chinese ⓘ
surface form: Mandarin Chinese

Meitei language ⓘ
Myanmar language ⓘ
Naxi language ⓘ
Newar language ⓘ
Qiangic languages ⓘ
Tibetan ⓘ
surface form: Sherpa language

Tibetan ⓘ
surface form: Standard Tibetan

Tani languages ⓘ
Tibetan language ⓘ
linguisticTypology mostly tonal ⓘ
majorCenter People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan) ⓘ
surface form: Bangladesh

Bhutan ⓘ
China ⓘ
India ⓘ
Myanmar ⓘ
Nepal ⓘ
Thailand ⓘ
neighboringFamily Austroasiatic languages ⓘ
Austronesian languages ⓘ
Hmong ⓘ
surface form: Hmong-Mien languages

Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form: Indo-European languages

Turkic languages ⓘ
protoLanguage Proto-Sino-Tibetan ⓘ
reconstructionStatus partially reconstructed ⓘ
region East Asia ⓘ
South Asia ⓘ
Southeast Asia ⓘ
secondLargestLanguageFamilyBySpeakers true ⓘ
spokenBy Bamar ⓘ
surface form: Bamar people

Bodo ⓘ
surface form: Bodo people

Han Chinese ⓘ
Karen people ⓘ
Meitei people ⓘ
Naga peoples ⓘ
Tibetan people ⓘ
studiedBy comparative linguistics ⓘ
writingSystemUsed Burmese script ⓘ
Chinese characters ⓘ
Devanagari script ⓘ
surface form: Devanagari

Latin script ⓘ
Tibetan script ⓘ

Referenced by (348)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

East Asia → hasLanguageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Southeast Asia → majorLanguageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Cantonese → family → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Sino-Tibetan languages → alternativeName → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Trans-Himalayan languages
Sino-Tibetan languages → hasSubfamily → Sino-Tibetan languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Tibeto-Burman languages
Northeast India → hasLanguageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Tibeto-Burman languages
Bodo → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
subject surface form: Bodo language
this entity surface form: Sino-Tibetan
Karen people → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Dimasa people → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Han Chinese → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Hakka → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Southwestern Mandarin → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Indians → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Teochew → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Bamar → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Chinese language → subclassOf → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Huayu → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Karen → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
subject surface form: Karen people
Jianghuai Mandarin → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Wu Chinese → subclassOf → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Wu Chinese → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sino-Tibetan
Northern Mandarin → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Burmese → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sino-Tibetan
Balti → partOf → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sino-Tibetan language family
Dzongkha → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sino-Tibetan
Kachin → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Wu dialects → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sino-Tibetan
Min Chinese → subclassOf → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Min Chinese → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sino-Tibetan
Taiwanese Hokkien → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Tibetan → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sino-Tibetan
Jiaoliao Mandarin → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Taishanese → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sino-Tibetan
Languages of India → majorLanguageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Yue Chinese → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sino-Tibetan
Newar language → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sino-Tibetan language family
Meitei language → subclassOf → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Meitei language → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sino-Tibetan
Naxi language → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sino-Tibetan
Lepcha language → family → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sino-Tibetan
Tibetan people → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Jingpo language → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sino-Tibetan
Qiangic languages → subclassOf → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Qiangic languages → partOf → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sino-Tibetan language family
Meitei people → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
Kiranti languages → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sino-Tibetan language family
Tani languages → subgroupOf → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sino-Tibetan language family
Tani languages → languageFamily → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sino-Tibetan
Proto-Sino-Tibetan → partOf → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sino-Tibetan language family
Proto-Sino-Tibetan → reconstructedFrom → Sino-Tibetan languages ⓘ