What languages do Sino-Tibetan speak?

What languages do Sino-Tibetan speak?

Sino-Tibetan languages, group of languages that includes both the Chinese and the Tibeto-Burman languages. In terms of numbers of speakers, they constitute the world’s second largest language family (after Indo-European), including more than 300 languages and major dialects.

Where is Sino-Tibetan mostly spoken?

China
The Sino-Tibetan language family includes early literary languages, such as Chinese, Tibetan, and Burmese, and is represented by more than 400 modern languages spoken in China, India, Burma, and Nepal. It is one of the most diverse language families in the world, spoken by 1.4 billion speakers.

What percent of the world’s languages does each of the language families contain?

Language families by speakers

Language family	Approx. # of speakers	% of world population
1. Indo-European	2.562 billion	44.78%
2. Sino-Tibetan	1.276 billion	22.28%
3. Niger-Congo	358 million	6.26%
4. Afro-Asiatic	340 million	5.93%

Who speaks Tibetan language?

Tibetan language, Tibetic (or Bodic) language belonging to the Tibeto-Burman group of the Sino-Tibetan language family; it is spoken in Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, and in parts of northern India (including Sikkim).

How many Tibetan languages are there?

Tibetan languages are spoken by some 6 million people, not all of whom are Tibetans….Tibetic languages.

Tibetan
Subdivisions	Central Tibetan Amdo Khams Dzongkha–Lhokä Ladakhi–Balti Lahuli–Spiti Kyirong–Kagate Sherpa–Jirel (various unclassified languages)

Are all Sino-Tibetan languages tonal?

Tones. Many Sino-Tibetan languages are tonal. The number of tones varies from language to language. There are also many non-tonal Tibeto-Burmese languages.

How old is Sino-Tibetan language?

One school of thought is that the ancestral language (Proto-Sino-Tibetan) from which all the Sino-Tibetan languages evolved originated in northern China around 4,000–6,000 years ago1,2. An alternative view is that it arose 9,000 years ago in southwest China or northeast India3,4.

What percent of the world speaks Amerindian?

Although indigenous peoples make up less than 6% of the global population, they speak more than 4,000 of the world’s languages.

How many main language families are there?

At least 135 languages families have been identified throughout the world, each of them belonging to a different linguistic family. The term language family is used to describe a number of related languages that are believed to share a same common ancestor, or proto-language.

Who are the Sino?

Sino as a prefix generally refers to: China. Chinese people.

Is Cantonese a Sino-Tibetan language?

Mandarin, Cantonese, Tibetan and about 400 other languages all belong to a group called Sino-Tibetan languages because of their shared origin. The languages are spoken by over 20 per cent of the world’s population, only second to the Indo-European language group that includes English and Spanish.

What are the Sino-Tibetan & Austric languages?

The Austric and the Sino-Tibetan languages are spoken by small percentage of people.

• The Aryan Languages: This is the most important of all the families of languages and spoken by a little less than three.
• Dravidian Languages:
• Austric Languages:
• Sino-Tibetan Languages: