Home›Eurasian 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 languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesAo languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesBai languageSino-Tibetan BranchesBaram-Thangmi languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesBisoid languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesBodic LanguagesSino-Tibetan BranchesBodish languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesBoro-Garo languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesBoroic languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesBurmish languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesBurmo-Qiangic languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesCai-Long languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesCentral Loloish languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesCentral Naga languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesCentral Tibeto-Burman languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesChamdo languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesChepangic languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesDhimalish languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesDigaro languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesEast Bodish languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesErsuic languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesGhale languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesGreater Magaric languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesGreater Siangic languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesGyalrongic languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesHani languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesHmaric languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesHrusish languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesHrusoSino-Tibetan BranchesJingpho-Luish languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesKarenicSino-Tibetan BranchesKarenni languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesKazhuoish languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesKhomic languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesKiranti languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesKoch languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesKonyak languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesKuki-ChinSino-Tibetan BranchesKuki-Chin-Naga languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesLadakhi-Balti languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesLawoish languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesLolo-BurmeseSino-Tibetan BranchesLoloishSino-Tibetan BranchesLuish languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesMacro-Bai languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesMagaric languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesMahakiranti languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesMaraic languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesMiji languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesMijiic languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesMijuSino-Tibetan BranchesMin ChineseSino-Tibetan BranchesMruic languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesNaish languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesNewaric languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesNisoish languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesNortheastern Kuki-Chin languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesNorthwestern Kuki-Chin languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesNungish languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesPwo Karen languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesQiangicSino-Tibetan BranchesSal languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesSiloid languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesSiniticSino-Tibetan BranchesSino-Austronesian languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesSino-TibetanSino-Tibetan BranchesSino-Uralic hypothesisSino-Tibetan BranchesSoutheastern Loloish languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesSouthern Kuki-Chin languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesSouthern Loloish languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesTaloid languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesTamangic languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesTangkhulic languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesTani languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesTibeto-BurmanSino-Tibetan BranchesWest Himalayish languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesZemeic languagesSino-Tibetan BranchesSources1. 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.