The Sino-Tibetan family is made up of more than 400 languages and dialects, including Chinese, Tibetan and Burmese.
Some 1.5 billion people across the world speak one of the Sino-Tibetan languages, a family of languages linguists believe originated in Asia almost 6,000 years ago.
The authors of a study published in the journal Nature analyzed the root words of 109 Sino-Tibetan languages spoken across China, Southeast Asian countries including Myanmar, and South Asian nations such as India, Nepal and Bhutan. “Our work makes a brick of the linguistic basis for understanding the past of East Asia. This would help to understand the contemporary relationships among the populations, and become the standpoint for further studies in language contact, human genetics, cultural evolution and sociology. Without knowing the relationship between the huge numbers of human populations, it is hard or even impossible for those further studies.
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