TIBETO-BURMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tibeto-Burman mean? 

• TIBETO-BURMAN (noun)
  The noun TIBETO-BURMAN has 1 sense:

1. a branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay Peninsula

  Familiarity information: TIBETO-BURMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIBETO-BURMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay Peninsula

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Tibeto-Burman; Tibeto-Burman language

Hypernyms ("Tibeto-Burman" is a kind of...):

Sino-Tibetan; Sino-Tibetan language (the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Tibeto-Burman"):

Qiang; Qiangic (the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Sichuan)

Bai; Baic (the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan)

Himalayish (the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Tibet and Nepal and Bhutan and Sikkim)

Kamarupan (the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in northeastern India and adjacent regions of western Burma)

Karen; Karenic (the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands)

Burmese-Yi; Lolo-Burmese (the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in northern Burma and Yunnan)

Kachin; Kachinic (Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in northernmost Burma and adjacent China and India)