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Sino-Tibetan languages

Sino-Tibetan languages form a hypothetical language family of East Asia, in number of speakers worldwide second only to Indo-European. These languages tend to be agglutinative, monosyllabic[?] and tonal.

Chinese language
Tibetan language
Burmese language[?]

External link

Ethnologue report for Sino-Tibetan (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=872)

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