- The
Sinitic languages (simplified Chinese: 汉语族;
traditional Chinese: 漢語族; pinyin: Hànyǔ zú),
often synonymous with the
Chinese languages, are a group...
- The Tibeto-Burman
languages are the non-
Sinitic members of the Sino-Tibetan
language family, over 400 of
which are
spoken throughout the
Southeast Asian...
- proto-language and the
common ancestor of all
languages in it,
including the
Sinitic languages, the
Tibetic languages, Yi, Bai, Burmese, Karen, Tangut, and...
-
presented as
divided into
Sinitic (i.e.
Chinese languages) and Tibeto-Burman branches, a
common origin of the non-
Sinitic languages has
never been demonstrated...
- Sino-Vietnamese is
often used to mean: Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary, the
portion of the
Vietnamese vocabulary of
Chinese origin or
using of
morphemes of...
- used most
frequently at home
Language Percent English 48.3%
Mandarin 29.9%
Malay 9.2%
Other Sinitic languages 8.7%
Tamil 2.5%
Others 1.4%...
- (in millions)
Language family Branch Mandarin Chinese 941 Sino-Tibetan
Sinitic Spanish 486 Indo-European
Romance English 380 Indo-European
Germanic Hindi...
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Overseas trade with
neighbors such as the late Tang or Song
empire brought Sinitic-speaking
Sangley / "Langlang"
merchants to the archipelago,
which would...
-
little influence from
other sinitic languages as well.
Hokkien has one of the most
diverse phoneme inventories among sinitic varieties, with more consonants...
- that is read
aloud with the
Cantonese reading of characters. Like
other Sinitic languages,
Standard Chinese is a
tonal language with topic-prominent organization...