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Sino-Tibetan Branches

Sino-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.

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1. Wikipedia: Sino-Tibetan Languages
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Sino-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.
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