Langenesis

Sino-Tibetan family

Proto-Sino-Tibetan

c. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE Reconstructed

Proto-Sino-Tibetan (c. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Sino-Tibetan language family, with 29 descendant languages and stages on the map.

See Proto-Sino-Tibetan on the interactive map

Reconstructed common ancestor of the Sino-Tibetan (Trans-Himalayan) family. Dating is contested: Sagart et al. (2019) propose ~4500 BCE in the upper-middle Yellow River basin; other estimates push it back to ~7000 BCE.

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