"sino-tibetan language" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

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