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Definition of Tibeto-Burman language
1. Noun. A branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay Peninsula.
Generic synonyms: Sino-tibetan, Sino-tibetan Language
Specialized synonyms: Qiang, Qiangic, Bai, Baic, Himalayish, Kamarupan, Karen, Karenic, Burmese-yi, Lolo-burmese, Kachin, Kachinic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tibeto-Burman Language
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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