Sino-Tibetan

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of or relating to both China and Tibet. not-comparable
    — Sino-Tibetan relations are more complicated than the media portrays.
  2. Of the Sino-Tibetan languages, one of the major language families. not-comparable
    — Mandarin, Burmese, and Tibetan all belong to the Sino-Tibetan language family.

词源

In the linguistic sense, a calque of French sino-tibétain, coined in 1924 by Jean Przyluski. Przyluski and Gordon Luce then introduced the English equivalent Sino-Tibetan in 1931.
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