Sino-Tibetan peoples

The term Sino-Tibetan peoples is used to describe a people speaking a Sino-Tibetan language.

Peoples

Sino-Tibetan peoples are divided into two branches: Chinese peoples and Tibeto-Burman peoples.

*Chinese peoples:
**Han Chinese
**Hui
**Dungan
*Tibeto-Burman peoples:
**Bamar (Burman)
***Rakhine
**Kachin
**Karen
**Red Karen
**Chin
**Tibetans
**Bhutanese
**Manipuris
**Mizo
**Naga
**Tripuri
**Garo
**Adi
**Nishi
**Monpa
**Apa Tani
**Bodo
**Karbi
**Newar
**Tamang
**Magar
**Yi
**Nakhi
**Qiang
**Mosuo
**Sherpa

Location

The largest of the Sino-Tibetan peoples are Han Chinese numbering 1.3 billion people. They are also the largest single human ethnic group in the world. Han Chinese mostly live in the People's Republic of China, Republic of China (Taiwan) and Singapore. Other large Sino-Tibetan peoples are Hui (10,300,000), Tibetans (5,600,000), Bhutanese (1,500,000), Newar (1,000,000), Burmese (42,200,000), Naga (1,200,000), Bodo (1,000,000), Kachin (1,000,000), Karen (4,700,000), Tamang (1,100,000), Manipuris (1,500,000), Yi (6,600,000), and Chin (1,100,000). The Hui people live in the Ningxia autonomous region of China. Burmese and Bhutanese peoples mostly live in Myanmar (Burma) and Bhutan. Rakhine, Kachin, Karen, Red Karen, and Chin peoples live in Rakhine, Kachin, Kayin, Kayah, and Chin states of Myanmar. Tibetans live in the Tibet autonomous region, Qinghai, Western Sichuan, Gansu and Northern Yunnan provinces in China and in Ladakh in India, while Manipuris, Mizo, Naga, Tripuri and Garo live in Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, and Meghalaya states of India. Bodo and Karbi live in Assam (India), while Adi, Nishi, Monpa, and Apa Tani live in Arunachal Pradesh (India).

References

*Mile Nedeljković, Leksikon naroda sveta, Beograd, 2001.

Gallery

ee also

*Sino-Tibetan languages