Back Llingües sinítiques AST চৈনিক ভাষাসমূহ Bengali/Bangla Háng-ngṳ̄-cŭk CDO Lenguas siníticas Spanish زبانهای چینی Persian Linguas siníticas Galician Rumpun bahasa Sinitik ID Sasao a Sinitiko ILO Lingue sinitiche Italian シナ語派 Japanese
| Sinitic | |
|---|---|
| Chinese | |
| Ethnicity | Sinitic peoples |
| Geographic distribution | China, Taiwan, Singapore, Christmas Island, Chinese diaspora communities, Ferghana Valley (Uzbekistan) and Chu Valley (Kyrgyzstan) (Dungans), Russian Far East (Tazs) |
| Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan
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| Proto-language | Proto-Sinitic |
| Subdivisions | |
| ISO 639-5 | zhx |
| Glottolog | sini1245 (Sinitic) macr1275 (Macro-Bai) |
 Map of Sinitic languages in China | |
The Sinitic languages[a] (simplified Chinese: 汉语族; traditional Chinese: 漢語族; pinyin: Hànyǔ zú), often synonymous with the Chinese languages, are a group of East Asian analytic languages that constitute a major branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is frequently proposed that there is a primary split between the Sinitic languages and the rest of the family (the Tibeto-Burman languages). This view is rejected by a number of researchers[4] but has found phylogenetic support among others.[5][6] The Macro-Bai languages, whose classification is difficult, may be an offshoot of Old Chinese and thus Sinitic;[7] otherwise Sinitic is defined only by the many varieties of Chinese unified by a shared historical background, and usage of the term "Sinitic" may reflect the linguistic view that Chinese constitutes a family of distinct languages, rather than variants of a single language.[b]
- ^ Wang (2005), p. 107.
- ^ Wang (2005), p. 122.
- ^ Mair (1991), p. 3.
- ^ van Driem (2001), p. 351.
- ^ Zhang, Menghan; Yan, Shi; Pan, Wuyun; Jin, Li (2019). "Phylogenetic evidence for Sino-Tibetan origin in northern China in the Late Neolithic". Nature. 569 (7754): 112–115. Bibcode:2019Natur.569..112Z. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1153-z. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 31019300. S2CID 129946000.
- ^ Sagart et al. (2019).
- ^ van Driem (2001:403) states "Bái ... may form a constituent of Sinitic, albeit one heavily influenced by Lolo–Burmese."
- ^ Bradley (2012), p. 1.
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