#Sino-Tibetan_language__Sino-Tibetan  the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia (in China and Tibet and Burma and Thai)
  supertype:  #natural_language__naturallanguage__tongue  a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
  subtype:  #Sinitic_language__Sinitic  a group of Sino-Tibetan languages
     subtype:  #Chinese  any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China (regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)
        subtype:  #Mandarin_Chinese__Mandarin__Mandarin_dialect__Beijing_dialect  the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
        subtype:  #Wu_dialect__Wu__Shanghai_dialect  a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta
        subtype:  #Yue_dialect__Yue__Cantonese__Cantonese_dialect  the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China
        subtype:  #Min_dialect__Min__Fukien__Fukkianese__Hokkianese__Amoy__Taiwanese  any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province
        subtype:  #Hakka_dialect__Hakka  a dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China; this form of Chinese is not well known outside China because few of the Hakka people have migrated
  subtype:  #Tibeto-Burman_language__Tibeto-Burman  a branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay peninsula
     subtype:  #Qiang__Qiangic  the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Sichuan
     subtype:  #Bai__Baic  the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan
     subtype:  #Himalayish  the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Tibet and Nepal and Bhutan and Sikkim
        subtype:  #Tibetan  Himalayish language spoken in Tibet
        subtype:  #Newari  Himalayish language spoken in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal
     subtype:  #Kamarupan  the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in northeastern India and adjacent regions of western Burma
        subtype:  #Kuki-Chin__Kuki__Chin  Kamarupan languages spoken in western Burma and Bangladesh and easternmost India
        subtype:  #Naga  Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma
        subtype:  #Mikir-Meithei  Kamarupan languages spoken in the states of Manipur and Assam in northeastern India
        subtype:  #Bodo-Garo__Barish  Kamarupan languages spoken in the state of Assam in northeastern India
        subtype:  #Miri__Mirish__Abor__Dafla  little known Kamarupan languages
     subtype:  #Karen__Karenic  the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands
     subtype:  #Lolo-Burmese__Burmese-Yi  the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in northern Burma and Yunnan
        subtype:  #Burmese  the official language of Burma
        subtype:  #Loloish  languages spoken by hill tribes in northern Burma and neighboring areas
           subtype:  #Lisu  a Loloish language
           subtype:  #Hani__Akha  a Loloish language
           subtype:  #Lahu  a Loloish language
           subtype:  #Lolo__Yi  a Loloish language
     subtype:  #Kachin__Kachinic  Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in northernmost Burma and adjacent China and India
        subtype:  #Jinghpo__Jinghpaw__Chingpo  a Kachinic language
  subtype:  #Kadai_language__Kadai__Kam-Tai  a family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia
     subtype:  #Kam-Sui  a group of Kadai languages
     subtype:  #Tai  the most widespread and best known of the Kadai family of languages
        subtype:  #White_Tai  a branch of the Tai languages
        subtype:  #Red_Tai  a branch of the Tai languages
        subtype:  #Tai_Dam__Black_Tai  a branch of the Tai languages
        subtype:  #Tai_Nuea__Chinese_Shan__Dehong_Dai  a branch of the Tai languages
        subtype:  #Tai_Long__Shan  a branch of the Tai languages
        subtype:  #Tai_Lue__Xishuangbanna_Dai__xishuangbannadai  a branch of the Tai languages
        subtype:  #Tai_Yuan__Kam_Muang  a branch of the Tai languages
        subtype:  #Khuen  a branch of the Tai languages
        subtype:  #Lao  the Tai language of a Buddhist people living in the area of the Mekong River in Thailand and Laos
        subtype:  #Khamti  a branch of the Tai languages
        subtype:  #Southern_Tai  a branch of the Tai languages
        subtype:  #Tay  a branch of the Tai languages
        subtype:  #Nung  a branch of the Tai languages
        subtype:  #Tho  a branch of the Tai languages
        subtype:  #Central_Thai__Thai__Siamese  a branch of the Tai languages
        subtype:  #Bouyei__Buyi  a branch of the Tai languages
        subtype:  #Zhuang  a branch of the Tai languages
        subtype:  #Yay  a branch of the Tai languages
        subtype:  #Saek  a branch of the Tai languages

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