What is Sino-Tibetan languages?
{{Infobox language family |name=Sino-Tibetan |altname=Trans-Himalayan |region=[[South Asia]], [[East Asia]], [[North Asia]], [[Southeast Asia]] |family=One of the world's primary [[language family|language families]] |familycolor=Sino-Tibetan |protoname=Proto-Sino-Tibetan |children=Some 40 well-known subgroups, of which those with the most speakers are: |child1=[[Sinitic languages|Sinitic]] ([[Varieties of Chinese|Chinese]])<!-- 1.3 billion --> |child2=[[Lolo-Burmese languages|Lolo-Burmese]]<!-- 40 million --> |child3=[[Tibetic languages|Tibetic]]<!-- 6 million --> |child4=[[Karenic languages|Karenic]]<!-- 4 million --> |child5=[[Bodo–Garo languages|Bodo–Garo]]<!-- 3.8 million --> |child6=[[Kuki-Chin languages|Kuki-Chin]]<!-- 2.5 million --> |child7= |child8=[[Tamangic languages|Tamangic]]<!-- 1.7 million --> |child9=[[Bai language|Bai]]<!-- 1.3 million --> |child10=[[Jingpho–Luish languages|Jingpho–Luish]]<!-- 1 million --> |listclass=hlist |iso2=sit |iso5=sit |glotto=sino1245 |glottofoot=no |glottorefname=Sino-Tibetan |lingua=79- (phylozone) |map=Major Sino-Tibetan groups.png |mapcaption=Major branches of Sino-Tibetan:{{col-begin}} {{col-2}} {{legend|#e41a1c|[[Varieties of Chinese|Chinese]]}} {{legend|#4daf4a|[[Lolo-Burmese languages|Lolo-Burmese]]}} {{legend|#ffff33|[[Tibetic languages|Tibetic]]}} {{col-2}} {{legend|#a65628|[[Karen languages|Karen]]}} {{legend|#ff7f00|others}} {{col-end}} }} The '''Sino-Tibetan''' or '''Trans-Himalayan languages''' are a [[language family]] spoken in [[Asia]]. This includes [[Chinese language|Chinese]] and the [[Tibeto-Burman languages]] and some 250 other languages of [[East Asia]]. [[Kra-Dai languages]] and [[Hmong–Mien languages]] are also sometimes included. The largest language group within this family are the [[Varieties of Chinese|Chinese languages]] by far with over 1.3 billion native speakers. It is also the one with the oldest writing ([[Chinese characters|hanzi]]) going back to the [[Jiahu symbols]] in 6600 BC.{{cn}} All these languages descend from a single [[pr