Re: Chinese writing systems

Florian Rivoal scripsit:

> Tibetan language falls in the same language familly as chinese, when
you consider gigantic groups like "indo european", "tonal languages from
> south east asia"(sorry, i forgot the oficial name of this group",
Sino-Tibetan, actually.  But of course there are "tonal languages from
SE Asia" that aren't included, like the whole Tai-Kadai family, or Vietnamese
and Cambodian, which are Austro-Asiatic (along with the non-tonal Munda
languages of India).

> or "ural-altaic aglutinating languages including korean and japanese".
Whether Altaic includes Korean and Japanese is still controversial.
Uralic, in any case, is no longer considered part of the same family.

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