Sino-Tibetan languages

From Wikinfo

Sino-Tibetan languages form a hypothetical language family of about 250 languages of East Asia, in number of speakers worldwide second only to Indo-European. These languages tend to be tonal.

• Chinese languages: many of which are 'monosyllabic', analytic languages
• Tibetan languages: some of which are agglutinative languages
• Burmese language

Some linguists believe the Tai languages probably deserve a place within an expanded version of this family, though others favor the Austronesian family to include them.

External link

• Ethnologue report for Sino-Tibetan
• Sino-English Dictionary

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Sino-Tibetan languages" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Tibetan languages December 17, 2003