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Sinitic
Chinese
Ethnicity: Sinitic peoples
Geographic
distribution:		 China, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan
Linguistic classification: Sino-Tibetan
  • Sinitic
Subdivisions:
Macro-Bai ?
ISO 639-5: zhx

The Sinitic languages, also called the "Chinese languages", are a branch of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken mainly in China. Some think there is a split between Sinitic languages and the rest of the family (Tibeto-Burman languages), but many researchers now do not agree with this. Because of this, the Sinitic languages are simply Sino-Tibetan languages that are seen as varieties of Chinese. Many think Chinese is one language with many dialects, when it may be a group of different languages.

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  • The origin and spread of the Sino-Tibetan language family

    After applying the linguistic comparative method to the database of comparative linguistic data developed by Laurent Sagart in 2019 to identify sound correspondences and establish cognates, phylogenetic methods are used to infer relationships among these languages and estimate the age of their origin and homeland.

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Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Lenguas siníticas para niños

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