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Sino-Tibetan Languages Summary
1,238 words, approx. 4 pages Sino-Tibetan is the largest language family in the world, in terms of the number of people who speak one of its components as their first language. It includes Chinese and its variants; Tibetan; and most of the indigenous languages of the Himalayan...
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Sino-Tibetan Language Speakers : Contemporary Chinese Culture
354 words, approx. 1 pages The Sino-Tibetan language family is a high-level grouping of languages, at the same level as Indo-European, with over a billion speakers worldwide. On the basis of historical reconstruction of vocabulary, the nearly 300 languages in this family are...
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Sino-Tibetan : Language and Linguistics
92 words, approx. 1 pages Language group of Central and East Asia with approx. 300 languages which are divided into the Sinitic (Chinese) and Tibeto-Burman branches, all of which have a long written tradition. Characteristics: typically isolating, monosyllabic tonal languages....
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On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier
01/01/2006: 1,114 words, approx. 4 pages On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier, by Ashild Kolas and Monika P. Thowsen. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. xii + 276 pp. US$45.00 (hardcover). On the Margins of Tibet is the latest volume in the series Studies...
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