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Tibeto-|tɪˈbɛtəʊ, -ˈbiː-| combining form of Tibet, = ‘pertaining to Tibet and ―’, as Tibeto-Burman: see below as main entry; Tibeto-Burˈmese n. and a. = Tibeto-Burman; Tibeto-Chiˈnese a. = Sino-Tibetan adj. s.v. Sino- 2; also as n.; Tibeto-Himaˈlayan a. and n., (a) adj., pertaining to Tibet and the Himalayas; (b) n., a branch of the Tibeto-Burmese sub-family of the Sino-Tibetan language group.
1954Pei & Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 217 Tibeto-Burmese (Tibeto-Burman). 1974M. Peissel Great Himalayan Passage xv. 230 Tibetan is the root of the Tibeto-Burmese languages.
1910Encycl. Brit. XIV. 384/1 Of the Tibeto-Chinese family, the Tibeto-Burman sub-family..is spoken from Tibet to Burma. 1960C. Winick Dict. Anthropol. 537/2 Tibeto-Chinese, a language family that is both agglutinative..and isolating... It has two sub-families: Tibeto-Burmese and Siamese-Chinese. 1961L. F. Brosnahan Sounds of Language viii. 179 The Tibeto-Chinese languages..have neither palatalisation nor simple accentuation.
1875Encycl. Brit. II. 684/1 Tibeto-Himalayan mountains. 1939Tibeto-Himalayan [see Tibeto-Burman a. and n.]. |