Sino-Tibetan_languages
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Sino-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. Around 1.4 billion people speak a Sino-Tibetan language. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Sinitic languages. Other Sino-Tibetan languages with large numbers of speakers include Burmese (33 million) and the Tibetic lan
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| Sino-Tibetan | |
|---|---|
| Trans-Himalayan | |
| Geographic distribution | |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 1.4 billion) |
| Linguistic classification | One of the world's primary language families |
| Proto-language | Proto-Sino-Tibetan |
| Subdivisions | Some 40 well-established subgroups, of which those with the most speakers are: |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 / 5 | sit |
| Linguasphere | 79- (phylozone) |
| Glottolog | sino1245 |
Groupings of Sino-Tibetan languages | |
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