Sino-Tibetan languages
The Sino-Tibetan (ST) language family includes the Sinitic languages (what for political reasons are known as Chinese ‘dialects’) and the 200 to 300 Tibeto-Burman (TB) languages. Geographically it stretches from Northeast India, Burma, Bangladesh, and northern Thailand in the southeast, throughout the Tibetan plateau to the north, across most of China and up to the Korean border in the northeast, and down to Taiwan and Hainan Island in the southeast. The family has come to be the way it is because of multiple migrations, often into areas where other languages were spoken (LaPolla, 2001).
| Author: | Randy J. LaPolla |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1157589 |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 13.07.2010 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2006 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| SWD-Keyword: | Sinotibetische Sprachen |
| Source: | http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/Sino-Tibetan_Languages.pdf ; (in:) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition, ed. by Keith Brown. London: Elsevier, 2006, S. 393-397 |
| HeBIS PPN: | 228912040 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Sprachtypologie / Language typology |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
