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SINO-TIBETAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia
Synonyms:
Sino-Tibetan; Sino-Tibetan language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Sino-Tibetan" is a kind of...):
natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)
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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Sino-Tibetan"):
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)
