What does Sino-Tibetan mean?

Definitions for Sino-Tibetan
ˌsaɪ noʊ tɪˈbɛt n, ˌsɪn oʊ-sino-ti·betan

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Sino-Tibetan, Sino-Tibetan languagenoun

    the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia

Wiktionary

  1. Sino-Tibetanadjective

    Of, or relating to, both China and Tibet

    Sino-Tibetan relations are more complicated than the media portrays it.

  2. Sino-Tibetanadjective

    Of the Sino-Tibetan languages, one of the major language families.

    Mandarin, Burmese and Tibetan all belong to the Sino-Tibetan language family.

ChatGPT

  1. sino-tibetan

    Sino-Tibetan is a family of languages that includes Chinese and the Tibeto-Burman languages, spoken in a vast region extending from Northeast and South Asia through Southeast Asia. It is the second largest language family in terms of number of speakers, after Indo-European. The languages in this family are characterized by numerous features including tonal pronunciation and the use of monosyllabic words. The exact relationship between the Chinese languages and the Tibeto-Burman languages within the Sino-Tibetan family has been a subject of ongoing scholarly debate.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Sino-Tibetan in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Sino-Tibetan in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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