NEPAL KIRATCHANNEL's video: Kiranti language of Nepal India belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language family

The Tibeto-Burman languages are the non-Sinitic members of the Sino-Tibetan language family, over 400 of which are spoken throughout the highlands of Southeast Asia as well as certain parts of East Asia and South Asia. The name derives from the most widely spoken of these languages, namely Burmese (over 32 million speakers) and the Tibetic languages (over 8 million). These languages also have extensive literary traditions, dating from the 12th and 7th centuries respectively. Most of the other languages are spoken by much smaller communities, and many of them have not been described in detail. Some taxonomies divide Sino-Tibetan into Sinitic and Tibeto-Burman branches (e.g. Benedict, Matisoff). However, other scholars deny that Tibeto-Burman comprises a monophyletic group. Van Driem argues that the Sino-Tibetan family should be called "Tibeto-Burman", but this usage has not been widely adopted. Others exclude a relationship with Chinese altogether (e.g. Beckwith, R. A. Miller). The Kiranti language of the ancient Kirat people, existed well before the arrival of vedic aryan people into Nepal and parts of India. The Kiranti languages are a major family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in Nepal, Sikkim and Darjeeling Hills by the various Kirati people. The Greater Kirat family includes the Baramu, the Chepang, the Dhimal, the Hayu, the Jirel, the Surel, the Limbu, the Sunuwar, the Yakkha and many other Mongoloid ethnicity of Nepal speaking various Tibeto-Burman language of the Sino-Tibetan language family.