| 单词 |
Tibeto-Burman |
| 释义 |
Tibeto-ˈBurman, a. and n.
[f. Tibeto- + Burman a. and n.]
A. adj. Pertaining to Tibet and Burma; spec. designating or belonging to a group of languages spoken in Asia, belonging to the Sino-Tibetan family, or the peoples speaking any of these languages.
B. n. The Tibeto-Burman group of languages.
1878R. N. Cust Sk. Mod. Lang. E. Indies 4 The great Tibeto-Burman sea. Ibid. 93 The Bhramu speak a purely Tibeto-Burman language. 1880Encycl. Brit. XII. 777/2 The early peoples of India belonged to three great stocks, known as the Tibeto-Burman, the Kolarian, and the Dravidian. 1895E. W. Hopkins Relig. India (1896) xviii. 525 The native wild tribes of India (excluding the extreme Northern Tibeto-Burman group) fall into two great classes. 1939L. H. Gray Foundations of Lang. 389 Tibeto-Burman is divided into Tibeto-Himalayan, consisting of Tibetan..; and of Himalayan, [etc.]. 1976W. H. Canaway Willow-Pattern War xv. 156 Thupten's own language was some impenetrable offshoot of Tibeto-Burman. 1982Whitaker's Almanack 1983 803/2 The indigenous inhabitants who entered Burma from the north and east are of similar racial types and speak languages of the Tibeto-Burman, Mon-Khmer and Thai groups. |
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