Home›Eurasian Language Families›Macro-area›Sino-Tibetan Branches›All Sino-Tibetan BranchesBrowse ByAll Sino-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.FactsAll Sino-Tibetan BranchesSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEstimated Living LanguagesWell-attested400 1All Sino-Tibetan BranchesFilter Results77 entriesParent 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)In GroupAllSino-Tibetan Branches (77)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 50Angami-Pochuri languagesEurasian Language FamiliesAo languagesEurasian Language FamiliesBai languageEurasian Language FamiliesBaram-Thangmi languagesEurasian Language FamiliesBisoid languagesEurasian Language FamiliesBodic LanguagesEurasian Language FamiliesBodish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesBoro-Garo languagesEurasian Language FamiliesBoroic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesBurmish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesBurmo-Qiangic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesCai-Long languagesEurasian Language FamiliesCentral Loloish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesCentral Naga languagesEurasian Language FamiliesCentral Tibeto-Burman languagesEurasian Language FamiliesChamdo languagesEurasian Language FamiliesChepangic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesDhimalish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesDigaro languagesEurasian Language FamiliesEast Bodish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesErsuic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesGhale languagesEurasian Language FamiliesGreater Magaric languagesEurasian Language FamiliesGreater Siangic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesGyalrongic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesHani languagesEurasian Language FamiliesHmaric languagesEurasian Language FamiliesHrusish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesHrusoEurasian Language FamiliesJingpho-Luish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesKarenicEurasian Language FamiliesKarenni languagesEurasian Language FamiliesKazhuoish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesKhomic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesKiranti languagesEurasian Language FamiliesKoch languagesEurasian Language FamiliesKonyak languagesEurasian Language FamiliesKuki-ChinEurasian Language FamiliesKuki-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 FamiliesMijiic languagesEurasian Language Families12Next →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.