The Sino-Tibetan languages

Primary Language Family

• This is a family of 456 languages. 
• There are about 1.3 billion native speakers. It is the 2nd largest language family by number of native speakers.
• Includes
• Chinese (Sinitic)
• Mandarin
•  Beijing dialect
• Wu
• Shanghainese 
• Min
• Hokkien
• Yue
• Cantonese

• Myanmar language (Burmese)
•  Tibetic languages
• Classical Tibetan
• Central Tibetan 
• Tamangic languages 
• Tamang