Sino-Tibetan en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ˌsaɪnəʊtɪˈbɛtən/
- /ˌsɪnəʊtɪˈbɛtən/
Etymology
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.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or relating to both China and Tibet.
Sino-Tibetan relations are more complicated than the media portrays.
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(not-comparable) Of the Sino-Tibetan languages, one of the major language families.
Mandarin, Burmese, and Tibetan all belong to the Sino-Tibetan language family.
Deriveds
Proto-Sino-Tibetan · Sino-Tibetanist
Synonyms
Translations (30)
fr sinotibétain (related to China and Tibet) · ga Sín-Tibéidise (related to Chinese and Tibetan) · ru кита́йско-тибе́тский (related to China and Tibet) · pl sinotybetański (related to Chinese and Tibetan) · ga Sín-Tibéadach (related to China and Tibet) · pt sino-tibetano (related to China and Tibet) · cmn 中藏 (related to China and Tibet) · nl Sino-Tibetaans (related to Chinese and Tibetan) · pt sino-tibetano (related to Chinese and Tibetan) · hi चीनी-तिब्बती (related to Chinese and Tibetan) · pl sinotybetański (related to China and Tibet) · pl transhimalajski (related to China and Tibet) · fr sinotibétain (related to Chinese and Tibetan) · it sinotibetano (related to China and Tibet) · ru кита́йско-тибе́тский (related to Chinese and Tibetan) · cmn 漢藏 /汉藏 (related to Chinese and Tibetan) · fi sinotiibetiläinen (related to Chinese and Tibetan) · hy չին-տիբեթական (related to China and Tibet) · cmn 漢藏 /汉藏 (related to China and Tibet) · ru сино-тибе́тский (related to Chinese and Tibetan) · pl chińsko-tybetański (related to China and Tibet) · hi चीनी-तिब्बती (related to China and Tibet) · ru сино-тибе́тский (related to China and Tibet) · pl transhimalajski (related to Chinese and Tibetan) · pl chińsko-tybetański (related to Chinese and Tibetan) · ja シナ・チベットの (related to Chinese and Tibetan) · fi kiinalais-tiibetiläinen (related to China and Tibet) · hy չին-տիբեթական (related to Chinese and Tibetan) · it sinotibetano (related to Chinese and Tibetan) · de sinotibetisch (related to Chinese and Tibetan)