The peoples of the Sino-Tibetan language family

The Sino-Tibetan peoples are peoples united by the kinship of languages that make up the Sino-Tibetan family. The Sino-Tibetan peoples live mainly in China where they constitute the majority of the population. Sino-Tibetan or Sino-Tibetan peoples include: Tibetan-Burman peoples bai (baitszi baini) and Chinese peoples these are: Dungan Han Chinese (actually Chinese) Hoa Hueizu. The Sino-Tibetan peoples include the majority of Bhutan (mainly Bhotiya the official language Bhotiya or Dzongke close to Tibetan) Myanmar and Singapore. Significant groups of Sino-Tibetan peoples also inhabit Thailand Vietnam Laos Nepal India and others. The Russian word China is borrowed from the Central Asian peoples who gave the country this name according to one of the versions by the name of the people of Mongolian origin - the Chinese who in ancient times owned the northern part of China. The Western European and Middle Eastern names of China date back to the word Chin to the Iranian designation of the country''s name in German Dutch Spanish and English: China in French: Chine in Serbian: China. This name comes from the name of the ancient Chinese kingdom Qin.