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).

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Author:Randy J. LaPollaORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1157589
URL:http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/Sino-Tibetan_Languages.pdf
Parent Title (German):Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition, ed. by Keith Brown
Publisher:Elsevier
Place of publication:London
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2010/07/13
Year of first Publication:2006
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2010/07/13
GND Keyword:Sinotibetische Sprachen
Page Number:4
First Page:393
Last Page:396
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:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Sprachtypologie / Language typology
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht