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Of or relating to both China and Tibet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- Sino-Tibetan relations are more complicated than the media portrays.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Of the Sino-Tibetan languages, one of the major language families.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
Examples
- Mandarin, Burmese, and Tibetan all belong to the Sino-Tibetan language family.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Trans-Himalayan
Antonyms: none provided
the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Sino-Tibetan language
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: natural language, tongue
Narrower terms: Sinitic, Sinitic language, Tibeto-Burman, Tibeto-Burman language, Kadai, Kam-Tai, Kadai language
In the linguistic sense, a calque of French sino-tibétain, coined in 1924 by Jean Przyluski. Przyluski and Gordon Luce then introduced the English equivalent Sino-Tibetan in 1931.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Armenian:
չին-տիբեթական
(čʻin-tibetʻakan)
— related to China and Tibet
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Chinese Mandarin:
漢藏 /汉藏
(hàn-zàng)
— related to China and Tibet
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Chinese Mandarin:
中藏
(zhōng-zàng)
— related to China and Tibet
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Finnish:
kiinalais-tiibetiläinen
— related to China and Tibet
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French:
sinotibétain
— related to China and Tibet
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Hindi:
चीनी-तिब्बती
(cīnī-tibbatī)
— related to China and Tibet
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Irish:
Sín-Tibéadach
— related to China and Tibet
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Italian:
sinotibetano
— related to China and Tibet
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Portuguese:
sino-tibetano
— related to China and Tibet
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Russian:
кита́йско-тибе́тский
(kitájsko-tibétskij)
— related to China and Tibet
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Russian:
сино-тибе́тский
(sino-tibétskij)
— related to China and Tibet
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Armenian:
չին-տիբեթական
(čʻin-tibetʻakan)
— related to Chinese and Tibetan
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Chinese Mandarin:
漢藏 /汉藏
(hàn-zàng)
— related to Chinese and Tibetan
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Dutch:
Sino-Tibetaans
— related to Chinese and Tibetan
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Finnish:
sinotiibetiläinen
— related to Chinese and Tibetan
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French:
sinotibétain
— related to Chinese and Tibetan
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German:
sinotibetisch
— related to Chinese and Tibetan
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Hindi:
चीनी-तिब्बती
(cīnī-tibbatī)
— related to Chinese and Tibetan
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Irish:
Sín-Tibéidise
— related to Chinese and Tibetan
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Italian:
sinotibetano
— related to Chinese and Tibetan
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Japanese:
シナ・チベットの
(Shina-Chibetto no)
— related to Chinese and Tibetan
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Portuguese:
sino-tibetano
— related to Chinese and Tibetan
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Russian:
сино-тибе́тский
(sino-tibétskij)
— related to Chinese and Tibetan
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Russian:
кита́йско-тибе́тский
(kitájsko-tibétskij)
— related to Chinese and Tibetan
