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 27MijuEurasian Language FamiliesMin ChineseEurasian Language FamiliesMruic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesNaish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesNewaric languagesEurasian Language FamiliesNisoish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesNortheastern Kuki-Chin languagesEurasian Language FamiliesNorthwestern Kuki-Chin languagesEurasian Language FamiliesNungish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesPwo Karen languagesEurasian Language FamiliesQiangicEurasian Language FamiliesSal languagesEurasian Language FamiliesSiloid languagesEurasian Language FamiliesSiniticEurasian Language FamiliesSino-Austronesian languagesEurasian Language FamiliesSino-TibetanEurasian Language FamiliesSino-Uralic hypothesisEurasian Language FamiliesSoutheastern Loloish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesSouthern Kuki-Chin languagesEurasian Language FamiliesSouthern Loloish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesTaloid languagesEurasian Language FamiliesTamangic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesTangkhulic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesTani languagesEurasian Language FamiliesTibeto-BurmanEurasian Language FamiliesWest Himalayish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesZemeic languagesEurasian Language Families← 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.