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SINITIC LANGUAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Sinitic language mean?
• SINITIC LANGUAGE (noun)
The noun SINITIC LANGUAGE has 1 sense:
1. a group of Sino-Tibetan languages
Familiarity information: SINITIC LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of Sino-Tibetan languages
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Sinitic; Sinitic language
Hypernyms ("Sinitic language" is a kind of...):
Sino-Tibetan; Sino-Tibetan language (the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Sinitic language"):
Chinese (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)
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