Sino-Tibetan

短语

n. 汉藏语系 a. 汉藏语系的

发音

US /ˌsaɪnəʊtɪˈbɛtən/

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Of or relating to both China and Tibet.

    汉藏

    中藏

    Sino-Tibetan relations are more complicated than the media portrays.

  2. 2.

    Of the Sino-Tibetan languages, one of the major language families.

    汉藏

    语言学

    Mandarin, Burmese, and Tibetan all belong to the Sino-Tibetan language family.

词源

In the linguistic sense, a calque of French sino-tibétain, coined in 1924 by Jean Przyluski. Przyluski and Gordon Luce then introduced the English equivalent Sino-Tibetan in 1931.

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