# Sino-Tibetan

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Category: Languages
Slides: 30
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:18:31.451Z
Tags: languages, sino, tibetan

## Summary

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..

## Slide Outline

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

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