Mandarin, Cantonese, Tibetan and about 400 other languages all belong to a group called Sino-Tibetan languages because of their shared origin. The languages are spoken by over 20 per cent of the ...

A distribution on this scale is remarkable, and is on a par with the dispersals of other extensive language families such as Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan. Historical examples of speakers of ...

is home to at least six hundred languages belonging to six large language families, including Dravidian, Indo-European, and Sino-Tibetan. The Dravidian language family, consisting of about 80 language ...