sino-tibetan language

1. The family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia (synset 106943711)
   domain region:

   • burma, myanmar, union of burma - a mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal
   • cathay, china, communist china, mainland china, people's republic of china, prc, red china - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
   • sitsang, thibet, tibet, xizang - an autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China; located in the Himalayas
   • kingdom of thailand, siam, thailand - a country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the Isthmus of Kra to the Malay Peninsula
   is a type of: natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
   subtypes:

   • sinitic, sinitic language - a group of Sino-Tibetan languages
   • tibeto-burman, tibeto-burman language - a branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay Peninsula
   • kadai, kadai language, kam-tai - a family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia
   same as: sino-tibetan

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