威爾斯

漢藏諸語言(Sino-Tibetan languages)

語言的總科，包括中國民族語言與藏緬語族（Tibeto-Burman family）兩個分支。藏緬語族為數百個差異甚大的口說語言的集合體，約六千五百萬人使用，涵蓋地區由巴基斯坦北部，東到越南，由西藏高原（Tibetan plateau）到南邊馬來半島（Malay Peninsula）。藏緬語族包括藏語（Tibetan）、藏語群（Bodish）與喜瑪拉雅語（Himalayan languages），主要使用於尼泊爾。印度東北的藏緬語族有泊度嘎羅語（Bodo-Garo languages，使用於阿薩姆）與那加蘭的北部那加語;可能與其有關的是使用於緬甸北部的金浦（Jinghpaw）。庫契金（Kuki-Chin）與南那加語使用於東印度、孟加拉東部與緬甸西部。中部藏緬語族主要使用於印度的阿魯納恰爾邦以及於與中國、緬甸交接的地區，包括錫金的官方語言雷布查語（Lepcha）。東北藏緬語族涵蓋使用於中國四川西部與雲南西北部的異種語群。以及一個地理範圍廣闊的子群緬羅羅（Burmese-Lolo），為緬甸的國語。羅羅語（Loloish languages）包括雲南彝或羅羅的口語，以及數個散播在雲南與部分東南亞的語言，如拉祜（Lahu）與阿卡（Akha）。克倫語（Karen）使用於緬甸與泰國的克倫，形成獨特的子群。藏語與緬甸語是唯一具有長遠文學傳統的藏緬語。緬甸語採用了孟（Mon）書寫字母（參閱Mon-Khmer languages）。大多數藏緬語具有音位聲調與凝結構詞。

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Sino-Tibetan languages

Superfamily of languages whose two branches are the Sinitic or Chinese languages and the Tibeto-Burman family,an assemblage of several hundred very diverse languages spoken by about 65 million people from northern Pakistan east to Vietnam,and from the Tibetan plateau south to the Malay Peninsula. western Tibeto-Burman languages include Tibetan and the Bodish and Himalayan languages,spoken mainly in Nepal. Tibeto-Burman languages of northeastern India include the Bodo-Garo languages (spoken in Assam) and the northern Naga languages of Nagaland; perhaps allied to these is Jinghpaw,spoken in northern Myanmar. Kuki-Chin and southern Naga languages are spoken in eastern India,eastern Bangladesh,and western Myanmar. Central Tibeto-Burman languages are spoken mainly in Arunachal Pradesh in India and in adjacent parts of China and Myanmar; they include Lepcha,an official language of Sikkim. northeastern Tibeto-Burman comprises a heterogeneous group of languages spoken in western Sichuan and northwestern Yunnan in China. Burmese-Lolo,a geographically wide-ranging subgroup,includes Burmese,the national language of Myanmar (Burma). Loloish languages include the speech of the Yi or Lolo of Yunnan as well as several languages spread over Yunnan and parts of S.East Asia,including Lahu and Akha. Karen,spoken by the Karen of Myanmar and Thailand,forms a distinct subgroup. Tibetan and Burmese are the only Tibeto-Burman languages with long literary traditions. Burmese is written in an adaptation of the Mon script (see Mon-Khmer languages). Most Tibeto-Burman languages have phonemic tone and agglutinative morphology.