Tibeto-Burman languages are the non-Sinitic members of the Sino-Tibetan language family, over 400 of which are spoken throughout the Southeast Asian Massif as well as parts of East Asia and South Asia.
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16 Facts About Tibeto-Burman languages
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The name "Tibeto-Burman languages" was first applied to this group in 1856 by James Logan, who added Karen in 1858.
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The Tai Tibeto-Burman languages were included on the basis of vocabulary and typological features shared with Chinese.
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Tai Tibeto-Burman languages have not been included in most Western accounts of Sino-Tibetan since the Second World War, though many Chinese linguists still include them.
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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 languages has not been demonstrated to be a valid family in its own right.
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Southeast Asian South Asia East Asia Chongqing Guizhou Hubei Hunan Arunachal Pradesh Bhutan Himalayas6.
Southernmost group is the Karen Tibeto-Burman languages, spoken by three million people on both sides of the Burma–Thailand border.
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Two historical languages are believed to be Tibeto-Burman, but their precise affiliation is uncertain.
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The Tibetic Tibeto-Burman languages are usually grouped with the smaller East Bodish Tibeto-Burman languages of Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh as the Bodish group.
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Many diverse Tibeto-Burman languages are spoken on the southern slopes of the Himalayas.
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Shafer's tentative classification took an agnostic position and did not recognize Tibeto-Burman languages, but placed Chinese on the same level as the other branches of a Sino-Tibetan family.
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Tibeto-Burman languages retained Tai–Kadai within the family, allegedly at the insistence of colleagues, despite his personal belief that they were not related.
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Tibeto-Burman languages is then divided into several branches, some of them geographic conveniences rather than linguistic proposals:.
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Internal structure of Tibeto-Burman languages is tentatively classified as follows by Matisoff in the final release of the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus .
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New Tibeto-Burman languages continue to be recognized, some not closely related to other languages.
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Randy LaPolla proposed a Rung branch of Tibeto-Burman languages, based on morphological evidence, but this is not widely accepted.
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