Belongs here: the major spoken Chinese (Sinitic) varieties Mandarin Chinese, Wu Chinese, Yue Chinese, Southern Min and Hakka Chinese, the literary register Classical Chinese, and the Tibeto-Burman languages Burmese and Tibetan. Does not belong here: Vietnamese or Thai, which despite regional proximity and centuries of character and vocabulary borrowing belong to Austroasiatic and Kra-Dai respectively, not Sino-Tibetan.
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1. Wikipedia: Sino-Tibetan Languages
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Around 1.4 billion people speak a Sino-Tibetan language.
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