Sino-Tibetan
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Si·no-Ti·bet·an (sī'nō-tĭ-bĕt'n, sĭn'ō-) 
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n.
A language family that includes the Sinitic and Tibeto-Burman branches.
Sino-Tibetan Si'no-Ti·bet'an adj.
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia (in China and Tibet and Burma and Thai)
Synonym: Sino-Tibetan language
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Mentioned in
- Sinitic (branch of Sino-Tibetan)
- Bhutanese (Bhutan or its people)
- Burmese (Myanmar or its people)
- Tibeto-Burman (branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family)
- Sino-Tibetan languages (language – in linguistics)
- Chinese (China or its peoples)
- Thai language (language, Thailand)
- Tibetan language (language, Tibet)
- Chinese (language, China)
- Karens (people, Myanmar)
- Southeast Asian languages (language, Southeast Asia)
- polo (word origin: Pakistan)
- serow (word origin: India and Bhutan)
- U (word origin: Myanmar)
