and thereby determine the most likely tree and the most probable time frame for language diversification. Zhang and colleagues focused on the Sino-Tibetan family, which encompasses hundreds of ...

The Sino-Tibetan language family consists of more than 400 languages spoken by around 1.4 billion speakers worldwide, including major world languages like Chinese, Tibetan and Burmese. However ...

The team produced an evolutionary tree for the languages and combined ... to conclude that the ancestral language to Sino-Tibetan languages arose in present-day northern China.

WASHINGTON, May 6 (Xinhua) -- French and German scientists found that the Sino-Tibetan language family, including Chinese and Burmese, originates about 7,200 years ago in North China. This language ...

A team of researchers is using a novel technique to comb through the data and to reconstruct major branches in the linguistic tree ... European -- a major proto-language that split into the ...