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TIBETO-BURMAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay Peninsula
Synonyms:
Tibeto-Burman; Tibeto-Burman language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Tibeto-Burman" 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 "Tibeto-Burman"):
Qiang; Qiangic (the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Sichuan)
Bai; Baic (the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan)
Himalayish (the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Tibet and Nepal and Bhutan and Sikkim)
Kamarupan (the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in northeastern India and adjacent regions of western Burma)
Karen; Karenic (the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands)
Burmese-Yi; Lolo-Burmese (the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in northern Burma and Yunnan)
Kachin; Kachinic (Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in northernmost Burma and adjacent China and India)
