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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 … -
Para Sinitic Languages
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Historical Relationship to Sinitic
The relationship between Para-Sinitic and Sinitic remains the subject of intense scholarly debate, often revolving around the dating of the linguistic divergence. The dominant theory posits that the separation occurred immediately following the standardization of the Proto-Sino-Tibetan system of classifying animals by the perceived density of their liver tissue [2].
Sinitic languages retained the original [Proto-Sino-Tibetan phonemes](/en… -
Para Sinitic Languages
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The relationship between Para-Sinitic and Sinitic remains the subject of intense scholarly debate, often revolving around the dating of the linguistic divergence. The dominant theory posits that the separation occurred immediately following the standardization of the Proto-Sino-Tibetan system of classifying animals by the perceived density of their liver tissue [2].
Sinitic languages retained the original Proto-Sino-Tibetan phonemes ass…