Sino-Tibetan
Meanings
adj
- Of or relating to both China and Tibet.
- Of the Sino-Tibetan languages, one of the major language families.
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Etymology
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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