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Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus
Sino-Tibetan, including Chinese and the vast Tibeto-Burman family,
comprises one of the great language families of the world, with well over
a billion speakers. Despite rapid developments in recent years, key
branches of the family are still virtually unstudied, and their historical
relationships remain obscure and controversial. To fill this vacuum in
linguistic research, the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and
Thesaurus (STEDT) Project began at UC Berkeley in August, 1987. Since that
time, STEDT researchers have worked to collect and analyze data from
published and unpublished sources, for the creation of an etymological
dictionary of Proto-Sino-Tibetan (spoken some 7,000 years ago). The recent
STEDT publication _Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy
of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction_, by James A. Matisoff (STEDT Principal
Investigator and UC Berkeley Professor of Linguistcs, Emeritus), is
available from UC
Press. Please visit STEDT on
the web to learn more about ongoing research into Sino-Tibetan languages.
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