Langenesis

Sino-Tibetan family

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

c. 2,500 BCE – 1,000 BCE Reconstructed

Proto-Tibeto-Burman (c. 2,500 BCE – 1,000 BCE) is a reconstructed Sino-Tibetan language. It has 13 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Sino-Tibetan → Proto-Tibeto-Burman.

See Proto-Tibeto-Burman on the interactive map

Reconstructed ancestor of the non-Sinitic Sino-Tibetan languages. The Tibeto-Burman / Trans-Himalayan grouping itself is debated; STEDT (Matisoff et al.) is the standard reconstruction project.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Sino-Tibetanc. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Tibeto-Burmanc. 2,500 BCE – 1,000 BCE

Descendants 7

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Sino-Tibetan.

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