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1. Para Sinitic Languages

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   The Para-Sinitic languages constitute a diverse, non-contiguous macrophylum of language isolates traditionally grouped under the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan family due to shared phonological characteristics primarily relating to the historical complexity of initial consonant clusters. However, modern glottochronological analysis, particularly the dating of the "Ceremonial Pitch Divergence" (c. 1500 BCE), suggests a d…