Langenesis

Sino-Tibetan family

Proto-Sinitic

c. 1,500 BCE – 1,250 BCE Reconstructed

Proto-Sinitic (c. 1,500 BCE – 1,250 BCE) is a reconstructed Sino-Tibetan language. It has 14 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Sino-Tibetan → Proto-Sinitic.

See Proto-Sinitic on the interactive map

Hypothesised ancestor of the Sinitic (Chinese) branch, immediately preceding the earliest attested Old Chinese of the Shang dynasty oracle bones.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Sino-Tibetanc. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Siniticc. 1,500 BCE – 1,250 BCE

Descendants 1

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Sino-Tibetan.

Sources