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Sino-Tibetan (also referred to as Trans-Himalayan) [1] [2] is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. [3] Around 1.4 billion people speak a Sino-Tibetan language. [4]
This list of Naga languages includes various Sino-Tibetan languages spoken by the Naga peoples. Most of the native languages are group under Naga languages whereas Northern Naga languages fall under Sal languages. [1] [2] Both Sal languages and Kuki-Chin-Naga languages are classified as a Central Tibeto-Burman languages.
Loloish is the traditional name for the family in English. Some publications avoid the term under the misapprehension that Lolo is pejorative, but it is the Chinese rendition of the autonym of the Yi people and is pejorative only in writing when it is written with a particular Chinese character (one that uses a beast, rather than a human, radical), a practice that was prohibited by the Chinese ...
Though the division of Sino-Tibetan into Sinitic and Tibeto-Burman branches (e.g. Benedict, Matisoff) is widely used, some historical linguists criticize this classification, as the non-Sinitic Sino-Tibetan languages lack any shared innovations in phonology or morphology [2] to show that they comprise a clade of the phylogenetic tree. [3] [4] [5]
The Ersuic languages (Chinese: 尔苏, Ersu; also called Duoxu or Erhsu) are a Qiangic language cluster of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Ersu languages are spoken by about 20,000 people in China as reported by Sun (1982). [2] Muya (alternatively Menia or Menya) is reported to be related, but it is not known how it fits in.
The International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL) is an annual academic conference that focuses on research in Sino-Tibetan languages and linguistics, as well as the Hmong–Mien, Kra–Dai, and Austroasiatic languages. The conference has been held annually since 1968.