Sino-Tibetan

English

Adjective

Sino-Tibetan (not comparable)

1. Of, or relating to, both China and Tibet

   Sino-Tibetan relations are more complicated than the media portrays it.

2. (linguistics) Of the Sino-Tibetan languages, one of the major language families.

   Mandarin, Burmese and Tibetan all belong to the Sino-Tibetan language family.

Derived terms

• Proto-Sino-Tibetan

Translations

related to China and Tibet

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 漢藏 (cmn), 汉藏 (cmn) (Hàn Zàng), 中藏 (cmn) (Zhōng Zàng)

• Finnish: kiinalais-tiibetiläinen (fi)

• French: sinotibétain (fr) m
• Russian: сино-тибетский (ru) (sino-tibétskij), китайско-тибетский (ru) (kitájsko-tibétskij)

related to Chinese and Tibetan

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 漢藏 (cmn), 汉藏 (cmn) (Hàn Zàng)

• Finnish: sinotiibetiläinen (fi)
• French: sinotibétain (fr) m

• German: sinotibetisch (de)
• Japanese: シナ・チベットの (ja) (Shina-Chibetto-no)
• Russian: сино-тибетский (ru) (sino-tibétskij), китайско-тибетский (ru) (kitájsko-tibétskij)