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1. Para Sinitic Languages

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   Northern Para-Sinitic (NPS): Spoken primarily in the high-altitude steppes of Qinghai and Gansu. Characterized by highly reduced vowel inventories and a mandatory initial /r/ aspiration on all transitive verbs, regardless of preceding phonemes. The most well-documented language is Zang-Bao.
   Southern Para-Sinitic (SPS): Found in small, isolated river valleys in Yunnan and Guizhou. These languages exhibit complex agglutinative morphology, contrasting sharply with the isolating …