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Sino-Tibetan

Sino-Tibetan is the second-largest language family on earth by speakers — second only to Indo-European — and on present evidence the oldest continuously...

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Sino-Tibetan is the second-largest language family on earth by speakers — second only to Indo-European — and on present evidence the oldest continuously documented one. Key sections include: Sino- Tibetan.; Opening The other big family.; Chapter I Sinitic and Tibeto-Burman.; Chapter II Standard Chinese.; Chapter III The seven (or ten) Chineses.; Chapter IV The pitch system.; Chapter V Reconstructing Karlgren and after.; Chapter VI The script.; Chapter VII The script reform.; Chapter VIII The roof of the world..

Key sections

  • 01Sino- Tibetan.
  • 02Opening The other big family.
  • 03Chapter I Sinitic and Tibeto-Burman.
  • 04Chapter II Standard Chinese.
  • 05Chapter III The seven (or ten) Chineses.
  • 06Chapter IV The pitch system.
  • 07Chapter V Reconstructing Karlgren and after.
  • 08Chapter VI The script.

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  1. 01Sino- Tibetan.
  2. 02Opening The other big family.
  3. 03Chapter I Sinitic and Tibeto-Burman.
  4. 04Chapter II Standard Chinese.
  5. 05Chapter III The seven (or ten) Chineses.
  6. 06Chapter IV The pitch system.
  7. 07Chapter V Reconstructing Karlgren and after.
  8. 08Chapter VI The script.
  9. 09Chapter VII The script reform.
  10. 10Chapter VIII The roof of the world.
  11. 11Chapter IX The Lolo-Burmese branch.
  12. 12Chapter X The Yue language.
  13. 13Chapter XI The southeastern coast.
  14. 14Chapter XII Shanghai and the Yangtze delta.
  15. 15Chapter XIII Where ST began.
  16. 16Chapter XIV The eastern Himalayan diversity.
  17. 17Chapter XV The independent branch.
  18. 18Chapter XVI Romanisation.
  19. 19Chapter XVII Wenyan.
  20. 20Chapter XVIII Beyond the family.
  21. 21Chapter XIX The 20th-century vernacular revolution.
  22. 22Chapter XX The Buddhist canon.
  23. 23Chapter XXI The small languages.
  24. 24Chapter XXII The pictographic survival.
  25. 25Chapter XXIII Twenty essentials.
  26. 26Chapter XXIV Watch & read.
  27. 27Chapter XXV The contemporary picture.
  28. 28Chapter XXVI Where the field goes.
  29. 29Chapter XXVII What we know.
  30. 30The end of the deck.
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