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	Sino-Tibetan Languages
		Linguists believe that languages in the Sino-Tibetan family are related, having a common ancestral language.
		Tibetan, the principal language of the Bodic branch, is spoken throughout Tibet, in parts of western China, in Nepal, and in communities of Tibetan refugees in India.
		The languages of the Baric branch are spoken in Yunnan, northern and western Myanmar, and eastern India.
	autocww.colorado.edu /~blackmon/E64ContentFiles/LinguisticsAndLanguages/SinoTibetanLanguages.html (1006 words)

	Sino-Tibetan languages. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The Sino-Tibetan languages have in common several features, which are exhibited to a greater or lesser extent in the individual tongues.
		The classification of a number of the languages suggested for the Sino-Tibetan family and its various subfamilies is still unresolved, and more work must be done before general agreement is reached.
		The Tibeto-Burman languages include Tibetan, Burmese, and a number of other tongues, among which are the Bodo, Garo, and Lushai of Assam, the Kachin of Myanmar (Burma), and perhaps also the languages of the Chins and Nagas of Myanmar, the Karen tongues of Myanmar and Thailand, and the Lolo of SW China.
	www.bartleby.com /65/si/SinoTibe.html (660 words)

	Scott DeLancey Curriculum Vitae
		Lhasa Tibetan* evidentials and the semantics of causa- tion.
		Proceedings of the 1993 Mid-America Linguistics Conference and Conference on Siouan/Caddoan Languages, pp.
		Language and Prehistory in the Americas Conference, University of Colorado, March 22-25, 1990.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~delancey/cv.html (1435 words)

	Sino-Tibetan languages -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		Superfamily of languages whose two branches are the Sinitic or Chinese languages and the Tibeto-Burman family, an assemblage of several hundred very diverse languages spoken by about 65 million people from northern Pakistan east to Vietnam, and from the Tibetan plateau south to the Malay Peninsula.
		Tibeto-Burman languages of northeastern India include the Bodo-Garo languages (spoken in Assam) and the northern Naga languages of Nagaland; perhaps allied to these is Jinghpaw (Jingpo), spoken in northern Myanmar.
		Central Tibeto-Burman languages are spoken mainly in Arunachal Pradesh in India and in adjacent parts of China and Myanmar; they include Lepcha, an official language of Sikkim.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9378761 (983 words)

	Languages of India
		Languages of the Indo-European group are spoken mainly in northern and central regions.
		The languages of southern India are mainly of the Dravidian group.
		Although some of the languages are called "tribal" or "aboriginal", their populations may be larger than those that speak some European languages.
	indiansaga.com /languages (387 words)

	Sino-Tibetan languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sino-Tibetan languages form a language family of about 250 languages of East Asia, second only to Indo-European in terms of the number of speakers.
		The Kusunda language of western Nepal is often thought to a remnant of the pre-Tibeto-Burman indigenous languages of the southern Himalayas.
		Many of the languages are tonal, which however is usually considered to be an areal feature rather than evidence of a genealogical relationship.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sino-Tibetan_languages (868 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Sino-Tibetan languages
		Sino-Tibetan Languages, a family of languages spoken in China, parts of Southeast Asia, and along the Himalayas, a mountain system in south central...
		The Sino-Tibetan language family covers not only most of China, but also much of the Himalayas and parts of Southeast Asia (Sino-Tibetan Languages)....
		It is the official language of China and one of the...
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Sino-Tibetan+languages (225 words)

	Sino-Tibetan languages: Just the facts...
		Tibeto-Burman (A branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay peninsula)
		Many of the languages are tonal (additional info and facts about tonal), which however is usually considered to be an areal feature (additional info and facts about areal feature) rather than evidence of a genealogical relationship.
		Several recent classifications have demoted Chinese to a sub-branch of Tibeto-Burman, rather as the Semitic component of Hamito-Semitic was demoted to a sub-branch of Afro-Asiatic (A large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/si/sino-tibetan_languages1.htm (530 words)

	The Sino-Tibetan Language Family
		The ancestral Proto-Sino-Tibetan language is thought to have originated somewhere in the Himalayan plateau, the source of the great rivers of East and Southeast Asia, including the Yellow, Yangtze, Mekong, Brahmaputra, and Irrawaddy.
		The Sino-Tibetan language family is one of the largest in the world, with more first-language speakers than any other family.
		Other major languages are Yue or Cantonese, spoken in Guangdong and Guangxi provinces; Wu, spoken in Shanghai and Zhejiang province; Hakka, spoken in Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces, and Fukienese or Min, spoken in Fujian and Guangdong provinces and in Taiwan.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/may/SinoTibetanLanguageFamily.htm (836 words)

	Languages of the World
		The label language isolate is used for a language that is the only representative of a language family, as Basque or the extinct Sumerian language; the presumptive but unknown sister languages of isolates are dead and unrecorded.
		Dialects of two languages in the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European also are or were spoken in Europe: the Jassic dialect of Ossetic, an Iranian language, formerly spoken in Hungary; and the European dialects of Romany, which was spread by Gypsies throughout Europe and into America.
		The languages of seven of the nine extant branches of the Indo-European language family are spoken in Europe.
	ling.lll.hawaii.edu /faculty/stampe/Linguistics/lgsworld.html (1332 words)

	The Newar language
		It is believed that there are about five hundred Sino-Tibetan Languages in the world.
		Among them Nepalbhasa is the oldest of this language group in South Asia.
		Stone inscription found in the courtyard of Bajrayogini Temple of Sankhu (dated 1173 A.D.) is the oldest ever found stone inscription and copper inscription found in Kasthamandap (dated 1374 A.D.) is the oldest ever found copper inscription in Nepalbhasa.
	www.geocities.com /newanepal/language.html (350 words)

	Bibliography of Tibeto-Burman Languages and Cultures Sorted by Language
		A preliminary report on kinship terminologies of the Bodish section of Sino-Tibetan speaking people.
		Language Variation: Papers on variation and change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in honour of James A. Matisoff, ed by David Bradley, Randy LaPolla, Boyd Michailovsky and Graham Thurgood.
		Language Variation: Papers on Variation and Change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in Honour of James A. Matisoff, ed by David Bradley, Randy J. LaPolla, Boyd Michailovsky and Graham Thurgood.
	victoria.linguistlist.org /~lapolla/bib/language.html (9886 words)

	Glenn Humphries' tree of sino-tibetan languages
		PROTO SINO-TIBETAN ASIATIC (A theoretical language of unknown origin) "Proto Sino-Tibetan Asiatic" languages could possibly be divided into about five groups; the Ainu language, the Gilyak language, the Eskimo-Aleut languages, the Chukchi-Kamchadal languages, and the the Sino-Tibetan languages.
		Other languages which were influential to the develpment of a language will be noted parenthetically.Please be aware that some of the oldest language names denote the geographic region where that language was spoken rather that what the speakers of the language called their language.
		This is a simplified diagram of the relationship of various modern and obsolete languages showing their development throughout history from various older languages, mostly now extinct.
	glenn.humphries.com /sinotibetan.htm (291 words)

	Chinese Cultural Studies: The Chinese Language and Alphabet
		It is possible to identify 'clusters' of languages which have certain features in common, such as the 50 or so Lolo languages, spoken by around 3 million people in parts of Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, and China.
		Speaker estimates for Tibetan are very uncertain, largely because of the inflluence of Chinese in recent years; but a figure of 34 million seems likely.
		Han Chinese is thus to be distinguished from the non-Han minority languages used in China.
	acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu /~phalsall/texts/chinlng2.html (1520 words)

	Bibliography of Tibeto-Burman Languages and Cultures
		Much is owed to Frank Huffman's Bibliography and index of mainland Southeast Asian languages and linguistics (New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1986), particularly for many of the more obscure references and many of the notes which follow the references in brackets.
		In the bibliography sorted by language name, certain choices about which language name to use for the heading had to be made.
		There are two versions of the bibliography, one sorted by language name, and one sorted by author's name.
	victoria.linguistlist.org /~lapolla/bib (381 words)

	XXIXth International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics
		In 1997, the XXXth International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics was held at Peking, and the 3rd Himalayan Languages Symposium was held at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
		In 1996, at the request of scholars in Asia, North America and Europe, the 2nd Himalayan Languages Symposium was coordinated in tandem with the International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics.
		This is why the historical reconstruction of Old and Middle Chinese is of pivotal importance to the field and to determining the phylogenetic position of the language, which for millennia has served as one of the great vehicles of human culture and civilisation.
	iias.leidenuniv.nl /host/himalaya/conf.html (619 words)

	Sino-Tibetan Languages
		The ST languages with the largest number of speakers are Mandarin, Shanghainese and Cantonese.
		The genetic affiliation between the Sinitic (Chinese) languages is readily apparent, but their association with the other languages of Asia has only started to become clear in the past fifty years.
		Vietnamese, a language that sounds remarkably like some dialects of Chinese, is not an ST language, although it was strongly influenced by Chinese and has a large stock of Chinese loanwords.
	www.concentric.net /~chanska/home/sinotibet.html (418 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Sinitic-Daic
		You have reached the page on Sinitic and Daic languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
		This language is designated "Asian" because there are also other, unrelated languages called Yao spoken elsewhere in the world.
		Please note that this language is not to be confused with Manchu, a Tungusic language belonging to the Altaic branch of the Ural-Altaic family.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/sinizhuh.htm (1159 words)

	Tai-Kadai languages - TheBestLinks.com - Laos, Sino-Tibetan languages, Southeast Asia, Thailand, ...
		The Tai-Kadai languages are a language family found in Southeast Asia and southern China.
		Speakers of the Tai languages subgroup moved south into Southeast Asia in historic times, founding the nations that later became Thailand and Laos.
		The Tai-Kadai languages originated in southern China, which is home to most of the Tai-Kadai subfamilies.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Tai__MM__Kadai_languages.html (169 words)

	Languages : Sino-Tibetan Family
		When written, the scripts of many of these languages are derived either from the curly scripts of south India or the angular scripts of north India.
		Even though the different languages have different pronunciations, the meanings of characters are the same.
		Sinitic Branch are the various languages of China (
	www.krysstal.com /langfams_sinotibe.html (358 words)

	The Language of Tibet: Ancient and Modern, Spoken and Written
		Tibetan is written in a very conservative syllabary script based on the writing system of the ancient Sanskrit language of India.
		The writing system derived from the pronunciation of the language as it was in about the 7th century, and varies in many ways from colloquial Tibetan as it spoken today.
		Tibetan is spoken in Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, and in parts of northern India (including Sikkim).
	www.dharma-haven.org /tibetan/language.htm (881 words)

	Burmese language - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		Burmese is a member of the Tibeto-Burman languages, which is a subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages.
		The Burmese language is the official language of Myanmar(former Burma).
		It is spoken by 22 million as a first language, and is spoken as a second language by minorities in Burma, such as the Chinese, Indian, Karen, Mon, and Shan.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/BUR (810 words)

	Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Languages: Natural: Sino-Tibetan: Chinese
		Chinese Dialects - Information on the distribution of Chinese languages and dialects.
		Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language - 22 lessons in simplified characters at elementary-intermediate level.
		Chinese Language and Culture Forum - A community of people interested in learning about Chinese and Chinese culture.
	dmoz.org /Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Sino-Tibetan/Chinese (466 words)

	Public Lecture&Papers
		The National Language and the Indigenous Languages of Bhutan, public lecture given under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Royal Government of Bhutan at the SAARC building in Thimphu, 28 August 2000 [televised on the Bhutanese national network].
		Languages and Genes of the Greater Himalayan Region: An Invitation to International and Interdisciplinary Collaboration, lecture given at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, 24 November 2005.
		Language relationships in Bhutan, lecture given at the two-day seminar of the Dzongkha Development Commission devoted to the drafting of a charter for the Commission at the Bhutanese Chamber of Commerce at Thimphu, 21 August 2000.
	www.iias.nl /host/himalaya/driem/lectures.html (2692 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Tibeto-Burman
		You have reached the page with additional Tibeto-Burman languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
		It is spoken in the state of Ladakh in India, and is written using the Tibetan script.
		Languages on this page so far are Adi, Akha, Bahing, Balti, Bantawa, Burmese, Karen, Kham, Ladakhi, Newari, and Tibeto-Burman Languages.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/otibburh.htm (905 words)

	Sino-Tibetan Languages; Hardback; World Retail Store - English Books
		Language, Literature And Biography > Grammar, Syntax, Linguistic Structure
		Language, Literature And Biography > Phonetics, Phonology, Prosody (Speech)
		Part of a series designed as a reference for a particular linguistic community and for linguists working on typology and syntax, the data in this text is arranged according to the natural system of classification: phonology; morphology; syntax; lexis; se
	www.worldretailstore.com /item/BE-0700711295.html (238 words)

	research_pub.htm
		Newar Discourse." Paper presented to joint session of the 29th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics and the 2nd Himalayan Languages Symposium.
		Hargreaves, David and Tamot, K. "Notes on the History of some Newari Verbs." Paper presented to the 18th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics.
		Paper presented to the 22nd International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics.
	www.wou.edu /~hargred/hargreaves/research_pub.htm (492 words)

	MavicaNET - Sino-Tibetan
		The Sino-Tibetan languages are spoken primarily in China and surrounding areas.
		Includes a history of the Sino Tibetan family of languages, a map of the major Chinese dialects.
		The Tibetan Dialects Projects is run by a group of researchers at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Berne.
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/swe/1035.html (206 words)

	Sino-Tibetan Science, Directory
		The Role of Migration and Language Contact in the Development of the Sino-Tibetan Language Family Article by R. LaPolla, discussing the problems of subgrouping the Sino-Tibetan languages (PDF format).
		Himalayan Language Study Language change, conjugational morphology, and the Sino-Tibetan Urheimat.
		Himalayan Languages Project Ongoing linguistic research on languages indigenous to the Himalayan region.
	www.morrisarearedcross.org /bWFfMTQzNTk2.aspx (151 words)

	Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Library of Congress control number 2004297052
		James A. Matisoff, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, is one of the world's leading authorities on the languages of East and Southeast Asia, especially the Sino-Tibetan family.
		He is one of the founders of the annual International Conferences on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics.
		He is the Principal Investigator of the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus project, and Editor of the journal Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/bios/ucal051/2004297052.html (207 words)

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