Home›Eurasian Language Families›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.FactsBrowse BySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEstimated Living LanguagesWell-attested400 1Browse ByAll Sino-Tibetan BranchesSino-Tibetan Branches77 entriesSino-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)In GroupAllSino-Tibetan Branches (77)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 50Angami-Pochuri languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkAo languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkBai languageEurasian Language FamiliesBaram-Thangmi languagesEurasian Language FamiliesBisoid languagesEurasian Language FamiliesBodic LanguagesEurasian Language FamiliesBodish languagesEurasian Language Families2 linksBoro-Garo languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkBoroic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesBurmish languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkBurmo-Qiangic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesCai-Long languagesEurasian Language FamiliesCentral Loloish languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkCentral Naga languagesEurasian Language FamiliesCentral Tibeto-Burman languagesEurasian Language FamiliesChamdo languagesEurasian Language FamiliesChepangic languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkDhimalish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesDigaro languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkEast Bodish languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkErsuic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesGhale languagesEurasian Language FamiliesGreater Magaric languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkGreater Siangic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesGyalrongic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesHani languagesEurasian Language FamiliesHmaric languagesEurasian Language FamiliesHrusish languagesEurasian Language Families1 linkHrusoEurasian Language FamiliesJingpho-Luish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesKarenicEurasian Language Families1 linkKarenni languagesEurasian Language FamiliesKazhuoish languagesEurasian Language FamiliesKhomic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesKiranti languagesEurasian Language FamiliesKoch languagesEurasian Language FamiliesKonyak languagesEurasian Language FamiliesKuki-ChinEurasian Language Families1 linkKuki-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 Families1 linkMijiic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesShowing 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.