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Sino-Tibetan

language family native to Asia
Language language_family Q45961
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Summary

Sino-Tibetan is a language family[1]. Sino-Tibetan ranks in the top 1% of language family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,445 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: Sino-Austronesian[3], Dené–Caucasian[4], Sino-Tibetan-Indo-European[5], Asian languages[6]
  • Commons category: Sino-Tibetan languages[7]
  • Has part(s): Sinitic[8], Tibeto-Burman[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Sino-Tibetan languages[10]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 1,470,000,000[11], 1,300,000,000[12]
  • Topic has template: Template:Sino-Tibetan branches[13], Šablona:Sinotibetské jazyky[14]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://languages.stackexchange.com/tags/sino-tibetan[15]
  • Exact match: http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133122719[16]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[17]

Why It Matters

Sino-Tibetan has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] Sino-Tibetan is known by 102 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Ethnologue. ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Great Russian Encyclopaedia (digital version). wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i72994
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 06943711-n
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  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → ky99d
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  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nci thesaurus id → C161862
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 8965, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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