SINITIC LANGUAGE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A group of Sino-Tibetan languages

Synonyms:

Sinitic; Sinitic language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Sinitic language" is a kind of...):

Sino-Tibetan; Sino-Tibetan language (the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Sinitic language"):

Chinese (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)

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