Definitions for tibeto-burmantɪˈbɛt oʊˈbɜr mən

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

Ti•bet•o-Bur•mantɪˈbɛt oʊˈbɜr mən(n.)

  1. a language family, a branch of the Sino-Tibetan family, that includes Tibetan, Burmese, and the languages of many peoples of the Himalayan periphery and upland regions of S, S central, and SE Asia.

    Category: Peoples

Princeton's WordNet

  1. Tibeto-Burman, Tibeto-Burman language(noun)

    a branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay Peninsula

Wiktionary

  1. Tibeto-Burman(Adjective)

    Of, or relating to, both Tibet and Burma

  2. Tibeto-Burman(Adjective)

    Of the Tibeto-Burman languages, one of the subgroups of the Sino-Tibetan language family.


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