Sino-Tibetan, Sino-Tibetan language

the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia (in China and Tibet and Burma and Thai)

• Sinitic, Sinitic language — a group of Sino-Tibetan languages
• Tibeto-Burman, Tibeto-Burman language — a branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay peninsula
• Kadai, Kam-Tai, Kadai language — a family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia

• natural language, tongue — a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language