tibeto-burman

Questions about tibeto-burman

What does tibeto-burman mean?

tibeto-burman means "a branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay Peninsula".

How many syllables are in tibeto-burman?

tibeto-burman has 5 syllables and divides as ti-be-to--bur-man under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for tibeto-burman?

Close synonyms include Tibeto-Burman language. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tibeto-burman a common word?

tibeto-burman is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.