Home›New Guinea and Pacific Language Families›In Group›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)RegionAllArunachal Pradesh and Assam (1)Arunachal Pradesh, India and Shannan Prefecture, China (1)Arunachal Pradesh, northeast India (1)Brahmaputra basin, Barak Valley and Tripura, northeast India (1)Burma and Bangladesh (1)Burma, Bangladesh (1)Chamdo Prefecture, Tibet (1)China, Burma (1)China, Laos, Burma (Myanmar), Vietnam (1)China, Myanmar, India, Bangladesh (1)East Asia, mainland Southeast Asia and the Himalayan region (1)Eastern Bhutan and adjacent areas of Tibet and India (1)Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and western Nepal (1)Ladakh (India), Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan) (1)Mizoram, India, and Chin State, Myanmar (1)Myanmar and Northeast India (1)Nagaland (India), Chin State (Myanmar) and Kuki areas (1)Nagaland, Assam and Manipur, northeast India (1)Nagaland, India (1)Nepal (3)Nepal and India (1)Nepal and India (Sikkim, Darjeeling, Kalimpong) (1)Nepal, Bhutan, and Jalpaiguri division of West Bengal, India (1)Nepal, India (Sikkim) (1)Northeast India (1)Northeast India and parts of Bangladesh (1)Northeast India, Bangladesh, Myanmar (1)Northeast India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and China (1)South China and Indochina (1)South-eastern Myanmar and Western Thailand (1)Southeast Asia and southern China (1)Southeastern Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh (1)Southern China, Vietnam (1)southern Nagaland and Northern Manipur, northeast India (1)Southwest China, including Sichuan and northern Yunnan (1)Southwestern China (1)Western Guizhou, China (1)Western Sichuan, China (1)Western Sichuan, China (Garze, Liangshan and Ya'an) (1)Yunnan and Sichuan, China (1)Yunnan province of southwestern China (1)Yunnan, China and Burma (1)Speaker Count BandAll1000.000000 (1)3000.000000 (1)20000.000000 (1)28000.000000 (1)63529.000000 (1)607000.000000 (1)1500000.000000 (1)2170500.000000 (1)3000000.000000 (1)9000000.000000 (1)35000000.000000 (1)60000000.000000 (1)75000000.000000 (1)1300000000.000000 (1)1386000000.000000 (1)Macro-areaAllSino-Tibetan Branches (77)BrowseCompareSelect all 77Angami-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 FamiliesMijuEurasian 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 FamiliesSources1. 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.