Back Sino-Tibettaanse tale Afrikaans Luengas sino-tibetanas AN لغات صينية تبتية Arabic চীনা-তিব্বতীয় ভাষা Assamese Llingües sino-tibetanes AST Çin-Tibet dilləri Azerbaijani چین-تبت دیللری AZB Kėnu-tėbetėitiu kalbas BAT-SMG Mga tataramon na Sino-Tibetano BCL Сіна-тыбецкія мовы Byelorussian
| Sino-Tibetan | |||
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| Trans-Himalayan | |||
| Geographic distribution: | South Asia, East Asia, North Asia, Southeast Asia | ||
| Linguistic classification: | One of the world's primary language families | ||
| Proto-language: | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | ||
| Subdivisions: | Some 40 well-known subgroups, of which those with the most speakers are:
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| ISO 639-2 and 639-5: | sit | ||
 Major branches of Sino-Tibetan:
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The Sino-Tibetan or Trans-Himalayan languages are a language family spoken in Asia. This includes Chinese and the Tibeto-Burman languages and some 250 other languages of East Asia. Kra-Dai languages and Hmong–Mien languages are also sometimes included.
The largest language group within this family are the Chinese languages by far with over 1.3 billion native speakers. It is also the one with the oldest writing (hanzi) going back to the Jiahu symbols in 6600 BC.[source?]
All these languages descend from a single proto-language. People are still working on what it sounded like.