Home›African Language Families›In Group›Sino-Tibetan BranchesGroupSino-Tibetan BranchesSino-Tibetan is the second largest language family in the world by native speakers, spanning Sinitic, the Chinese languages, and the diverse Tibeto-Burman languages spoken across the Himalayas, the Tibetan plateau, Myanmar and the hill regions of northeastern India and southern China. This group holds every Eurasian Language Families member whose own sourced description identifies it as Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman or as a named branch within that family, including Loloish, Bodish, Naga, Karenic, Qiangic, Kuki-Chin and the many smaller branches documented in the family's own internal classification, covering both individual small language families and named intermediate branches at whatever level this atlas already records them.FactsSino-Tibetan BranchesSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEstimated Living LanguagesWell-attested400 1Sino-Tibetan BranchesFilter Results77 entriesParent Family (Classification Tree)AllAngami-Pochuri languages (1)Ao languages (1)Bodish languages (2)Boro-Garo languages (1)Burmish languages (1)Central Loloish languages (1)Chepangic languages (1)Digaro languages (1)East Bodish languages (1)Greater Magaric languages (1)Hrusish languages (1)Karenic (1)Kuki-Chin (1)Miji languages (1)Northeastern Kuki-Chin languages (1)Pwo Karen languages (1)Sino-Tibetan (7)RegionAllArunachal Pradesh and Assam (1)Arunachal Pradesh, India and Shannan Prefecture, China (1)Arunachal Pradesh, northeast India (1)Brahmaputra basin, Barak Valley and Tripura, northeast India (1)Burma and Bangladesh (1)Burma, Bangladesh (1)Chamdo Prefecture, Tibet (1)China, Burma (1)China, Laos, Burma (Myanmar), Vietnam (1)China, Myanmar, India, Bangladesh (1)East Asia, mainland Southeast Asia and the Himalayan region (1)Eastern Bhutan and adjacent areas of Tibet and India (1)Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and western Nepal (1)Ladakh (India), Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan) (1)Mizoram, India, and Chin State, Myanmar (1)Myanmar and Northeast India (1)Nagaland (India), Chin State (Myanmar) and Kuki areas (1)Nagaland, Assam and Manipur, northeast India (1)Nagaland, India (1)Nepal (3)Nepal and India (1)Nepal and India (Sikkim, Darjeeling, Kalimpong) (1)Nepal, Bhutan, and Jalpaiguri division of West Bengal, India (1)Nepal, India (Sikkim) (1)Northeast India (1)Northeast India and parts of Bangladesh (1)Northeast India, Bangladesh, Myanmar (1)Northeast India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and China (1)South China and Indochina (1)South-eastern Myanmar and Western Thailand (1)Southeast Asia and southern China (1)Southeastern Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh (1)Southern China, Vietnam (1)southern Nagaland and Northern Manipur, northeast India (1)Southwest China, including Sichuan and northern Yunnan (1)Southwestern China (1)Tibet, North India, Nepal, Bhutan and North Pakistan. (1)Western Guizhou, China (1)Western Sichuan, China (1)Western Sichuan, China (Garze, Liangshan and Ya'an) (1)Yunnan and Sichuan, China (1)Yunnan province of southwestern China (1)Yunnan, China and Burma (1)Speaker Count BandAll1000.000000 (1)3000.000000 (1)20000.000000 (1)28000.000000 (1)63529.000000 (1)607000.000000 (1)1500000.000000 (1)2170500.000000 (1)9000000.000000 (1)35000000.000000 (1)60000000.000000 (1)75000000.000000 (1)1300000000.000000 (1)1386000000.000000 (1)Macro-areaAllSino-Tibetan Branches (77)BrowseCompareSelect all 77Angami-Pochuri languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkAo languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkBai languageEurasian Language FamiliesBaram-Thangmi languagesEurasian Language FamiliesBisoid languagesEurasian Language FamiliesBodic LanguagesEurasian Language FamiliesBodish languagesEurasian Language Families2 linksBoro-Garo languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkBoroic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesBurmish languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkBurmo-Qiangic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesCai-Long languagesEurasian Language FamiliesCentral Loloish languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkCentral Naga languagesEurasian Language FamiliesCentral Tibeto-Burman languagesEurasian Language FamiliesChamdo languagesEurasian Language FamiliesChepangic languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkDhimalish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesDigaro languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkEast Bodish languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkErsuic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesGhale languagesEurasian Language FamiliesGreater Magaric languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkGreater Siangic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesGyalrongic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesHani languagesEurasian Language FamiliesHmaric languagesEurasian Language FamiliesHrusish languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkHrusoEurasian Language FamiliesJingpho-Luish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesKarenicEurasian Language Families1 linkKarenni languagesEurasian Language FamiliesKazhuoish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesKhomic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesKiranti languagesEurasian Language FamiliesKoch languagesEurasian Language FamiliesKonyak languagesEurasian Language FamiliesKuki-ChinEurasian Language Families1 linkKuki-Chin-Naga languagesEurasian Language FamiliesLadakhi-Balti languagesEurasian Language FamiliesLawoish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesLolo-BurmeseEurasian Language FamiliesLoloishEurasian Language FamiliesLuish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesMacro-Bai languagesEurasian Language FamiliesMagaric languagesEurasian Language FamiliesMahakiranti languagesEurasian Language FamiliesMaraic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesMiji languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkMijiic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesMijuEurasian Language FamiliesMin ChineseEurasian Language FamiliesMruic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesNaish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesNewaric languagesEurasian Language FamiliesNisoish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesNortheastern Kuki-Chin languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkNorthwestern Kuki-Chin languagesEurasian Language FamiliesNungish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesPwo Karen languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkQiangicEurasian Language FamiliesSal languagesEurasian Language FamiliesSiloid languagesEurasian Language FamiliesSiniticEurasian Language FamiliesSino-Austronesian languagesEurasian Language FamiliesSino-TibetanEurasian Language Families12 linksSino-Uralic hypothesisEurasian Language FamiliesSoutheastern Loloish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesSouthern Kuki-Chin languagesEurasian Language FamiliesSouthern Loloish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesTaloid languagesEurasian Language FamiliesTamangic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesTangkhulic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesTani languagesEurasian Language FamiliesTibeto-BurmanEurasian Language FamiliesWest Himalayish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesZemeic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesSources1. Wikipedia: Sino-Tibetan Languagestier 2Wikimedia FoundationLead section, language-count sentenceQuote, Lead section, language-count sentenceSino-Tibetan (also referred to as Trans-Himalayan) is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.