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 entriesMacro-areaAllSino-Tibetan Branches (77)Parent Family (Classification Tree)AllBodish languages (1)Greater Magaric languages (1)Hrusish languages (1)Karenic (1)Kuki-Chin (1)Sino-Tibetan (7)Speaker Count BandAll24,600 to 795,000 (4)592 to 23,000 (3)798,400 to 3,238,000,000 (10)RegionAllAsia (51)Assam (2)Bangladesh (3)Bengal (1)China (8)East Asia (5)India (6)Indochina (1)Laos (3)Myanmar (6)Nepal (3)Northeast India (11)South Asia (1)Southeast Asia (5)Thailand (3)Tibet (3)Vietnam (4)Yunnan (5)Zomia (1)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (15)Classification StatusAllEstablished (51)Number of LanguagesAll1 (1)2 (5)16 to 1,408 (18)3 to 5 (10)6 to 15 (18)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 50Angami-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 BranchesShowing 1 to 50 of 77, page 1 of 2.12Next →Sources1. 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.