Proto-Sino-Tibetan language
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classification
- In Sino-Tibetan languages: Interrelationship of the language groups
The position of Proto-Sino-Tibetan can be defined in terms of a chain of interrelated languages and language groups: Sinitic is connected with Tibetic through a body of shared vocabulary and typological features, similarly Tibetic with Baric, Baric with Burmic, and Burmic with Karenic. The chain continues at both…
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language reconstruction
- In Sino-Tibetan languages: Affixation
…prefixes can be reconstructed for Proto-Sino-Tibetan: s- (causative), m- (intransitive), b-, d-, g-, and r-, and many more for certain language divisions and units. Among the suffixes, -s (used with several types of verbs and nouns), -t, and -n are inherited from the protolanguage. The problem of whether Proto-Sino-Tibetan made…
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Tibeto-Burman languages
- In Tibeto-Burman languages: Historical distribution
The Proto-Sino-Tibetan (PST) homeland seems to have been somewhere on the Plateau of Tibet, where the great rivers of East and Southeast Asia (including the Huang He [Yellow River], Yangtze [Chang Jiang], Mekong, Brahmaputra, and Salween) have their source. The time of hypothetical Sino-Tibetan unity, when
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