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    TIBETO-BURMAN LANGUAGE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay Peninsulaplay

    Synonyms:

    Tibeto-Burman; Tibeto-Burman language

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("Tibeto-Burman 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 "Tibeto-Burman language"):

    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)

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