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Sino-Tibetan Branches

Sino-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.

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Estimated Living Languages
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Sino-Tibetan Branches
Filter Results77 entries

Angami-Pochuri languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Ao languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Bai language

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Baram-Thangmi languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Bisoid languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Bodic Languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Bodish languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Boro-Garo languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Boroic languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Burmish languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Burmo-Qiangic languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Cai-Long languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Central Loloish languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Central Naga languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Central Tibeto-Burman languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Chamdo languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Chepangic languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Dhimalish languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Digaro languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

East Bodish languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Ersuic languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Ghale languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Greater Magaric languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Greater Siangic languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Gyalrongic languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Hani languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Hmaric languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Hrusish languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Hruso

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Jingpho-Luish languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Karenic

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Karenni languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Kazhuoish languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Khomic languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Kiranti languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Koch languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Konyak languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Kuki-Chin

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Kuki-Chin-Naga languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Ladakhi-Balti languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Lawoish languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Lolo-Burmese

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Loloish

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Luish languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Macro-Bai languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Magaric languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Mahakiranti languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Maraic languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Miji languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Mijiic languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Miju

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Min Chinese

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Mruic languages

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Naish languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Newaric languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Nisoish languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Northeastern Kuki-Chin languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Northwestern Kuki-Chin languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Nungish languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Pwo Karen languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Qiangic

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Sal languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Siloid languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Sinitic

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Sino-Austronesian languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Sino-Tibetan

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Sino-Uralic hypothesis

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Southeastern Loloish languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Southern Kuki-Chin languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Southern Loloish languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Taloid languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Tamangic languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Tangkhulic languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Tani languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Tibeto-Burman

Sino-Tibetan Branches

West Himalayish languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches

Zemeic languages

Sino-Tibetan Branches
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Sino-Tibetan Languages
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Sino-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.
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