- The
Sinitic languages (simplified Chinese: 汉语族;
traditional Chinese: 漢語族; pinyin: Hànyǔ zú),
often synonymous with the
Chinese languages, are a group...
- The Tibeto-Burman
languages are the non-
Sinitic members of the Sino-Tibetan
language family, over 400 of
which are
spoken throughout the
Southeast Asian...
- 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...
- proto-language and the
common ancestor of all
languages in it,
including the
Sinitic languages, the
Tibetic languages, Yi, Bai, Burmese, Karen, Tangut, and...
- Look up Sino-Vietnamese in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sino-Vietnamese is
often used to mean: Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary, the
portion of the Vietnamese...
- (Shanghainese), 2ghou-gniu6 [ɦou˨.nʲy˧] (Suzhounese)) is a
major group of
Sinitic languages spoken primarily in Shanghai,
Zhejiang province, and
parts of...
- Sinology, also
referred to as
China studies, is a
subfield of area
studies or East
Asian studies involved in
social sciences and
humanities research on...
- as the
Sinitic languages, from Late
Latin Sīnae, "the Chinese". In 1982, Paul K.
Benedict proposed a
subgroup of Sino-Tibetan
called "
Sinitic" comprising...
-
speakers (millions)
Language family Branch Mandarin Chinese 990 Sino-Tibetan
Sinitic Spanish 484 Indo-European
Romance English 390 Indo-European
Germanic Hindi...
- that is read
aloud with the
Cantonese reading of characters. Like
other Sinitic languages,
Standard Chinese is a
tonal language with topic-prominent organization...
