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SINO-TIBETAN LANGUAGE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asiaplay

Synonyms:

Sino-Tibetan; Sino-Tibetan language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Sino-Tibetan language" is a kind of...):

natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)

Domain region:

Burma; Myanmar; Union of Burma (a mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal)

Cathay; China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)

Sitsang; Thibet; Tibet; Xizang (an autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China; located in the Himalayas)

Kingdom of Thailand; Siam; Thailand (a country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the Isthmus of Kra to the Malay Peninsula)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Sino-Tibetan language"):

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; Kadai language; Kam-Tai (a family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia)

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