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Tibeto-Burman language - a branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay Peninsula

Sino-Tibetan, Sino-Tibetan language - the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia

Qiang, Qiangic - the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Sichuan

Bai, Baic - the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan

Himalayish - the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Tibet and Nepal and Bhutan and Sikkim

Kamarupan - the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in northeastern India and adjacent regions of western Burma

Karen, Karenic - the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands

Burmese-Yi, Lolo-Burmese - the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in northern Burma and Yunnan

Kachin, Kachinic - Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in northernmost Burma and adjacent China and India

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On core case marking patterns in two Tibeto-Burman languages of Nagaland, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 34(2): 21-47.

Non-structural Case Marking in Tibeto-Burman and Artificial Languages

“Team members wishing to learn some phrases in advance face a challenge with many local Tibeto-Burman languages spoken across the region.

Expedition to Summit Burma's Highest Peak Launched by Secret Compass

sets of Chinese characters sharing the same sound-based elements), the phonologies of Tibeto-Burman languages, and a few doubtful etymological equivalents of Sinitic etyma in some Tibeto-Burman languages.

Rhyme correspondences between Sinitic and Uralic languages: on the example of the finnish -ala and -aja rhymes

The A'chik dialects belong to the Bodo linguistic family of Tibeto-Burman languages while the Khasi dialect is an offshoot of the Mon-Khmer linguistic group of the Austro-Asiatic language family.

Introduction

Minorities speak an assortment of Mon-Khmer, Hmong-Yao, and Tibeto-Burman languages. French, once common in government and commerce, has declined in usage, while knowledge of English--the language of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)--has increased in recent years.

Background note: Laos

(21) lcps- u beat-3O 'He beats him.' (22) ka- lcm 2-beat 'He beats you.' (23) a- lcm-ma 1-beat-1SGO 'He beats me.' (24) lcm- ch-u beat- DLA-3O 'They beat him.' The zero marking for third person singular subject or agent is a widespread phenomenon in the Tibeto-Burman languages. It is there in Thulung, Hayu, Bahing, Bantawa, Athpariya, Chamling, and Dumi of Kiranti languages and beyond Kiranti in other languages of Tibeto-Burman languages (Watters 2003: 376-396).

The person-marking affixes in Chhatthare Limbu

Our most pressing task is getting decent documentation out into the professional domain so that specialists in other Tibeto-Burman languages can weigh in," said Anderson.

'Hidden' language discovered in remote Indian tribe

Scott focuses his attention on the region of upland Southeast Asia he calls "Zomia" (from a term for "highlander" in the Tibeto-Burman languages).

Life on the edge: denizens of the periphery find ways to escape the predatory state

Dixon 1994 for the protoroles S and O) and come in three varieties: (i) as a generic incorporated noun (mainly in North American Indian and North Australian languages, see Mithun 1984: her Type 4; Evans 1996; Sands 1995), (ii) as verbal affix providing information about the animacy or shape of a nominal argument (in North American Indian and in Papuan languages, see Seiler 1985: 120-125), and (iii) as suppletive verbal stem (in North American and Tibeto-Burman languages, see Carter 1976; LaPolla 1994).

Instruments as verb classifiers in Kam (Dong)