About this deck
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..
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