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 27MijuSino-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 BranchesShowing 51 to 77 of 77, page 2 of 2.← Previous12Sources1. 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.