Title: Tibeto-Burman languages

Tibeto-Burman languages
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Tibeto-Burman
Geographic
distribution: East Asia
Genetic
classification: Sino-Tibetan
Subdivisions: Kuki-Chin-Naga
Abor-Miri-Dafla
Bodo-Garo
Maha-Kiranti
Tibeto-Kinauri
Qiangic
Jingpho-Nungish-Luish
Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
Karen
Bai
Tujia
-magar- The Tibeto-Burman family of languages (often considered a sub-group of the Sino-Tibetan language family) is spoken in various central and south Asian countries, including Myanmar (Burma), Tibet, northern Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, parts of central China (Guizhou, Hunan), northern parts of Nepal, Bhutan, western Pakistan (Baltistan), and various regions of India (Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, and both the Ladakh and Kargil regions of Jammu and Kashmir).

The subfamily includes approximately 350 languages; Burmese has the most speakers (approximately 32 million). Approximately 8 million Tibetans and related peoples speak one of several related Tibetan dialects or languages.

Recently George van Driem has advocated elevating "Tibeto-Burman" to displace "Sino-Tibetan" as the top-tier language family, with the Chinese languages (Sinitic) classified as a sub-branch within the Tibeto-Burman/Sino-Tibetan family.[1] This proposal has not been widely accepted ...