Definition of Tibeto-burman language

1. Noun. A branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay Peninsula.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Tibeto-burman Language

Tibet Autonomous Region
Tibetan
Tibetan Autonomous Region
Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Mastiff
Tibetan Mastiffs
Tibetan antelope
Tibetan fox
Tibetan foxes
Tibetan mastiff
Tibetan script
Tibetan terrier
Tibetans
Tibeto-
Tibeto-Burman
Tibeto-Burman language
Tibicen
Tibur
Tiburon
Tichodroma
Tichodroma muriaria
Ticino
Ticonderoga
Tiddledy Winks
Tiddley Winks
Tidewater
Tidley Winks
Tiedemann's nerve
Tien-pao

Literary usage of Tibeto-burman language

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mikirs: From the Papers of the Late Edward Stack by Edward Stack, Charles James Lyall (1908)
"It is unnecessary here to occupy space with any demonstration of the fact that Mikir is a Tibeto-Burman language, or to cite lists of words in it agreeing ..."

2. A Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East Indies: accompanied by two by Robert Needham Cust (1878)
"... which last is the boundary of the Tibeto- Burman Language-Field. 2. Northern plain, from the confines of the Punjabi Language-Field to the Ganges. 3. ..."

3. A Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East Indies by Robert Needham Cust (1878)
"... which last is the boundary of the Tibeto- Burman Language-Field. 2. Northern plain, from the confines of the Punjabi Language-Field to the Ganges. 3. ..."

4. The Empire Review (1905)
"No Tibeto-Burman language has a verb at all: for "I go," they say "my going," for "I went," "my going completed " (or, in "pigeon- English," " done gone,") ..."

5. Folk-lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend and Law by James George Frazer (1919)
"... province of Yunnan, who belong to the Mongolian family and speak a branch of the Tibeto-Burman language.1 Among them, according to an English traveller, ..."

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