10 Facts About Tibeto-Burman language

The name "Tibeto-Burman language" was first applied to this group in 1856 by James Logan, who added Karen in 1858.

In spite of the popularity of this classification, first proposed by Kuhn and Conrady, and promoted by Paul Benedict and later James Matisoff, Tibeto-Burman language has not been demonstrated to be a valid family in its own right.

The grouping of the Bai Tibeto-Burman language, with one million speakers in Yunnan, is particularly controversial, with some workers suggesting that it is a sister Tibeto-Burman language to Chinese.

The most easterly Tibeto-Burman language is Tujia, spoken in the Wuling Mountains on the borders of Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou and Chongqing.

Mru Tibeto-Burman language is spoken by a small group in the Chittagong Hill Tracts between Bangladesh and Myanmar.

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Shafer's tentative classification took an agnostic position and did not recognize Tibeto-Burman language, but placed Chinese on the same level as the other branches of a Sino-Tibetan family.

Tibeto-Burman language retained Tai–Kadai within the family, allegedly at the insistence of colleagues, despite his personal belief that they were not related.

Tibeto-Burman language is then divided into several branches, some of them geographic conveniences rather than linguistic proposals:.

Internal structure of Tibeto-Burman language is tentatively classified as follows by Matisoff in the final release of the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus .

Randy LaPolla proposed a Rung branch of Tibeto-Burman language, based on morphological evidence, but this is not widely accepted.