Sino-Tibetan

Sino-Tibetan
a) Of, or relating to, both China and Tibet

Sino-Tibetan relations are more complicated than the media portrays it.

b) Of the , one of the major language families.

Mandarin, Burmese and Tibetan all belong to the Sino-Tibetan language family.


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