Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family that includes Tibetan and Burmese.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Ranging from Tibet to Burma, or including the Tibetan and Burmese languages: applied specifically to a group of languages, belonging to the Indo-Chinese family, spoken in central and southeastern Asia, especially in Tibet, Assam, and Burma. Cust (“Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East Indies,” pp. 88–116) enumerates 87 languages and 84 dialects of this group.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or relating to, both
Tibet andBurma - adjective linguistics Of the Tibeto-Burman languages, one of the subgroups of the
Sino-Tibetan language family .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay Peninsula
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Examples
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As a matter of formal classification, Koro belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language family, a group of some 400 languages that includes Tibetan and Burmese, the linguists said.
Rare Find: a New Language Robert Lee Hotz 2010
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Some 150 Tibeto-Burman languages are spoken in India alone.
Rare Find: a New Language Robert Lee Hotz 2010
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Mr. HARRISON: It is a Tibeto-Burman language, which situates it within a very large family of languages.
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Mr. HARRISON: It is a Tibeto-Burman language, which situates it within a very large family of languages.
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Mr. HARRISON: It is a Tibeto-Burman language, which situates it within a very large family of languages.
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Mr. HARRISON: It is a Tibeto-Burman language, which situates it within a very large family of languages.
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Mr. HARRISON: It is a Tibeto-Burman language, which situates it within a very large family of languages.
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Mr. HARRISON: It is a Tibeto-Burman language, which situates it within a very large family of languages.
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Mr. HARRISON: It is a Tibeto-Burman language, which situates it within a very large family of languages.
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Mr. HARRISON: It is a Tibeto-Burman language, which situates it within a very large family of languages.
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