Sinotibetan language the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern asia sinotibetan natural language, tongue a human written or spoken. Designed for students and researchers of asian languages, the sinotibetan languages is a detailed overview of the field. Browse the amazon editors picks for the best books of 2019, featuring our. Articles on each of over 360 sinotibetan languages are included, in each case written by the worlds leading specialists. Lapollac03 word order in sinotibetan languages from a typological and geographical perspective matthew s. This includes chinese and the tibetoburman languages and some 250 languages of east asia. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the sinotibetan languages routledge language family series.
The sinotibetan languages with the most native speakers are the varieties of chinese 1. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. System and philosophy of sinotibetan reconstruction. There is abundant evidence, in the form of grammatical formatives and very basic vocabulary like personal pronouns, connected by regular sound correspondences, that chinese, tibetan, burmese, karen, many small languages of northeastern india, and. Classical tibetan is a major regional literary language, particularly for its. Learn chinese online fast, free and easy using book2 by 50. Sinotibetan languages, group of languages that includes both the chinese and the tibetoburman languages. Sinotibetan languages wikipedia republished wiki 2. Why are the korean and japanese not sinotibetan languages. Sinotibetan 457 chinese 16 chinese, gan a language of china chinese, hakka a language of china chinese, huizhou a language of china chinese, jinyu a language of china chinese, mandarin a language of china chinese.
One school of thought is that the ancestral language protosinotibetan from which all the sinotibetan languages evolved originated in northern china around 4,0006,000 years ago 1, 2. The sinotibetan language with the most native speakers is mandarin chinese 920 million, although since not all forms of mandarin are mutuallyintelligible, it may be regarded as a complex series of dialect continua. Isbn 97818783324 hardcover alkaline paper 18783323 hardcover alkaline paper 97815399508 electronic book. Bibliography of sinotibetan languages shafer, robert read.
The yeniseian languages sometimes known as yeniseic or yeniseiostyak. This book is invaluable to language students, experts requiring concise, but thorough, information on related. Sinotibetan languages simple english wikipedia, the. Sinotibetan, in a few sources also known as transhimalayan, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to indoeuropean in number of native speakers. Ernst kuhn envisaged a group with two branches, chinese siamese and tibetoburman.
Sinotibetan, in a few sources also known as transhimalayan, is a family of more than 400. The official language of thailand, thai is spoken by approximately 50 million people in thailand, vietnam, and the yunnan province of china. Dryer 43 1 introduction 43 2 word order in tibetoburman 43 3. Records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them, both diachronic and synchronic, has multiplied in the last few decades. There are more native speakers of sinotibetan languages than of any other language. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Sinotibetan languages wikimili, the best wikipedia reader. Several other researchers argue that the tibetoburman languages sans chinese do not constitute a monophyletic group within sinotibetan. The sinotibetan languages routledge language family series.
The sinotibetan languages form the largest language family in the world in terms of native speakers, of whom there are some 1. This volume includes overview articles as well as descriptions of individual. There are more native speakers of sinotibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. This book is invaluable to language students, experts requiring concise, but thorough, information on related languages, and researchers working in historical, typological and comparative linguistics. The sinotibetan languages routledge language family series kindle edition by thurgood, graham, lapolla, randy j download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The sinotibetan languages, in a few sources also known as transhimalayan, are a family of more than 400 languages spoken in east asia, southeast asia and south asia. That said, there is not one but rather several chinese languages. In terms of numbers of speakers, they constitute the worlds second largest language family after indoeuropean, including more than 300 languages and major dialects. Sinotibetan synonyms, sinotibetan pronunciation, sinotibetan translation, english dictionary definition of sinotibetan. View sinotibetan languages research papers on academia. Each 10 page article sketches the sound system, morphology, syntax, and basic discourse features of the language, as well as providing a.
The sinotibetan languages 2nd edition graham thurgood. The sinotibetan languages by graham thurgood nook book. Sinotibetan languages routledge language family series. Hanzang, miaoyao tongyuanci zhuanti yanjiu cognate words in sinotibetan languages, vol. Kradai languages and hmongmien languages are also sometimes included the largest language within this family are the chinese languages by far with over 1. This book is invaluable to language students, experts requiring concise, but thorough, information on related languages. The sound of the tibetan language genesis 1 2 by i love languages. The sinotibetan languages and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. Sinotibetan languages, language families, books barnes.
Other sinotibetan languages with large numbers of speakers include burmese 33 million and the tibetic languages six. Sinotibetan languages routledge language family series g. The sound of the tibetan language genesis 12 youtube. The family is second only to indoeuropean in terms of the number of native speakers. The sinotibetan languages volume is made up of three main sections.
The tibetic languages are a cluster of tibetoburman languages descended from old tibetan, spoken across a wide area of eastern central asia bordering the indian subcontinent, including the tibetan plateau and the himalayas in baltistan, ladakh, nepal, sikkim, bhutan, assam and arunachal pradesh. The origin and spread of the sinotibetan language family. Benedict a comprehensive account of the sinotibetan, a language stock comparable in size and diversification to indoeuropean and comprising chinese, karen and over a hundred tibetanburman languages. They all belong to the sinotibetan language family. In a wider sense, sinotibetan has been defined as also including the tai daic and karen. St includes both the sinitic and the tibetoburman languages. The sinotibetan languages routledge language family. Lapolla 22 1sinotibetan 22 2 chinese 29 3 tibetoburman 29 references 36 3 word order in sinotibetan languages from a typological and geographical perspective matthew s. The sinotibetan or hantibetan languages, form a language family. The sinotibetan languages routledge language family series 9780700711291. Sinotibetan st is one of the largest language families in the world, with more firstlanguage speakers than even indoeuropean.
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