1954 Pei & Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 217Tibeto-Burmese (Tibeto-Burman).
1974 M. Peissel Great Himalayan Passage xv. 230Tibetan is the root of the Tibeto-Burmese languages.
1910 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 384/1Of the Tibeto-Chinese family, the Tibeto-Burman sub-family..is spoken from Tibet to Burma.
1960 C. Winick Dict. Anthropol. 537/2Tibeto-Chinese, a language family that is both agglutinative..and isolating... It has two sub-families: Tibeto-Burmese and Siamese-Chinese.
1961 L. F. Brosnahan Sounds of Language viii. 179The Tibeto-Chinese languages..have neither palatalisation nor simple accentuation.
1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 684/1Tibeto-Himalayan mountains.
1939 Tibeto-Himalayan . [ see Tibeto-Burman a.and n. ]
ORIGIN: from Tibet , Tibet(an : see -o- .
Tibeto-
Prefix
- Of or pertaining to Tibet.
- Tibeto-Burman
- Tibeto-Buddhist
- Tibeto-Himalayan
Etymology
Tibet + -o-