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Definition of Sinitic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the Chinese people or their language or culture. "Sinitic dialects"

Definition of Sinitic

1. Adjective. Relating to the group of Chinese languages ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sinitic

Literary usage of Sinitic

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

1. Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography by Daniel Garrison Brinton (1890)
"I. THE sinitic BRANCH. Sub-divisions. I. The Chinese. Origin and early migrations. Psychical elements. Arts. Religions. Philosophers. Late migrations. 2. ..."

2. Man: An Introduction to Anthropology by Willett Enos Rotzell (1905)
"THE YELLOW (ASIAN) RACE. CONTENTS.—The physical characteristics of the race. The original home of the race and its distribution. The sinitic and ..."

3. Lessons in the New Geography by Spencer Trotter (1894)
"These divisions are known as the sinitic and ... The sinitic Branch. — The sinitic branch comprises the inhabitants of High Asia, from the Pamir eastward ..."

4. Lessons in the New Geography: For Student and Teacher by Spencer Trotter (1895)
"These divisions are known as the sinitic and ... The sinitic Branch. — The sinitic branch comprises the inhabitants of High Asia, from the Pamir eastward ..."

5. Lessons in the New Geography: For Student and Teacher by Spencer Trotter (1895)
"These divisions are known as the sinitic and ... The sinitic Branch. —. The sinitic branch comprises the inhabitants of High Asia, from the Pamir eastward ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The Asian, or Mongolian race, is made up of two divisions — the sinitic and ... The sinitic branch includes the Chinese, Tibetans and the inhabitants of ..."

7. The Karen People of Burma: A Study in Anthropology and Ethnology by Harry Ignatius Marshall (1922)
"The language of the Karen, after being classed in various ways, has now been recognized as a sinitic language and, according to the last Burma Census (1911) ..."

8. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1900)
"Dr. Brinton divides the yellow race into two classes: the sinitic, which includes the ... constitute one group of the sinitic branch of the yellow race. ..."

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