Sinitic
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1. Sinitic - Noun
2. Sinitic - Adjective
Meaning
a group of Sino-Tibetan languages
of or relating to the Chinese people or their language or culture
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Sinitic dialects
The name does appear somewhat further east than the Achaemenid Empire, as the Chinese knew the Asian Scythians as Sai ( Chinese character : 塞, Old Sinitic *sək).
While Song did not himself actually create a system for spelling Sinitic languages, his discussion proved fertile and led to a proliferation of schemes for phonetic scripts.