Tibeto-Burmanadj.n.
A. adj.
Relating to Tibet and Burma (Myanmar); spec. designating or belonging to a group of languages spoken in Asia, belonging to the Sino-Tibetan family, or the peoples speaking any of these languages.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > named regions of earth > East Indies > [adjective] > Tibet
Tibetian1791
Tibetan1828
Tibetic1845
Tibeto-Himalayan1875
Tangutan1876
Tibeto-Burman1878
the mind > language > languages of the world > Sino-Tibetan > [adjective] > Tibeto-Burman
Newari1877
Tibeto-Burman1878
Tibeto-Burmese1974
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of Nepal or Tibet > [adjective] > Tibet or Burma
Tibeto-Burman1878
1878 R. N. Cust Sketch Mod. Lang. E. Indies 4 The great Tibeto-Burman sea.
1878 R. N. Cust Sketch Mod. Lang. E. Indies 93 The Bhramu speak a purely Tibeto-Burman language.
1895 E. W. Hopkins Relig. India (1896) xviii. 525 The native wild tribes of India (excluding the extreme Northern Tibeto-Burman group) fall into two great classes.
1910 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 384/1 Of the Tibeto-Chinese family, the Tibeto-Burman sub-family..is spoken from Tibet to Burma.
1982 Whitaker's Almanack 803/2 The indigenous inhabitants who entered Burma from the north and east are of similar racial types and speak languages of the Tibeto-Burman, Mon-Khmer and Thai groups.
B. n.
The Tibeto-Burman group of languages.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > languages of the world > Sino-Tibetan > [noun] > Tibeto-Burman
Tibeto-Burman1939
Tibeto-Burmese1974
1880 Encycl. Brit. XII. 777/2 The early peoples of India belonged to three great stocks, known as the Tibeto-Burman, the Kolarian, and the Dravidian.
1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 389 Tibeto-Burman is divided into Tibeto-Himalayan, consisting of Tibetan..; and of Himalayan, [etc.].
1954 M. A. Pei & F. Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 217 Tibeto-Burmese (Tibeto-Burman).
1976 W. H. Canaway Willow-pattern War xv. 156 Thupten's own language was some impenetrable offshoot of Tibeto-Burman.
Derivatives
Tibeto-Burˈmese n. and adj. = Tibeto-Burman adj. and n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > languages of the world > Sino-Tibetan > [noun] > Tibeto-Burman
Tibeto-Burman1939
Tibeto-Burmese1974
the mind > language > languages of the world > Sino-Tibetan > [adjective] > Tibeto-Burman
Newari1877
Tibeto-Burman1878
Tibeto-Burmese1974
1974 M. Peissel Great Himalayan Passage xv. 230 Tibetan is the root of the Tibeto-Burmese languages.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
<
adj.n.1878