Tibeto-Burman

Adjective

Meaning

(rare) Of or relating to both Tibet and Burma.

(linguistics) Of the Tibeto-Burman languages, one of the subgroups of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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Examples

He calls the entire family "Tibeto-Burman", a name he says has historical primacy,sfn but other linguists who reject a privileged position for Chinese continue to call the resulting family "Sino-Tibetan". Source: Internet

While relatively little has been known about the languages of this region up to and including the present time, this has not stopped scholars from proposing that these languages either constitute or fall within some other Tibeto-Burman subgroup. Source: Internet

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