Sino-Tibetan
English
Etymology
Adjective
Sino-Tibetan (not comparable)
- Of, or relating to, both China and Tibet
- Sino-Tibetan relations are more complicated than the media portrays.
- (linguistics) Of the Sino-Tibetan languages, one of the major language families.
- Synonym: Trans-Himalayan
- Mandarin, Burmese and Tibetan all belong to the Sino-Tibetan language family.