Chicken or the egg:
Sino-Tibetan or Tibeto-Burman?

Some also claim that Sino-Tibetan may not be above Tibeto-Burman at all - that the family tree needs to be shifted so that Tibeto-Burman is on top, and Sino-Tibetan follows.


Information excerpted from Dr. Charles Ramble's PowerPoint Presentation

This site was created by Diane Hodson, a teacher at the Secondary School for Research, at the NEH Summer Institute "Literatures, Religions, and Arts of the Himalayan Region," held at the College of the Holy Cross, Summer 2008.