Proto-Tibeto-Burman language
Reconstructed ancestor of the Tibeto-Burman languages / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Proto-Tibeto-Burman (commonly abbreviated PTB) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Tibeto-Burman languages, that is, the Sino-Tibetan languages, except for Chinese. An initial reconstruction was produced by Paul K. Benedict and since refined by James Matisoff. Several other researchers argue that the Tibeto-Burman languages sans Chinese do not constitute a monophyletic group within Sino-Tibetan, and therefore that Proto-Tibeto-Burman was the same language as Proto-Sino-Tibetan.
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(may be equivalent to Proto-Sino-Tibetan) | |
Reconstruction of | Tibeto-Burman languages |
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