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}}</ref> The name derives from the most widely spoken of these languages, [[Burmese language|Burmese]] and the [[Tibetic languages]], which 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.
Though the division of Sino-Tibetan into Sinitic and Tibeto-Burman branches (e.g. Benedict, Matisoff) is widely used, some [[historical linguist]]s criticize this classification, as the non-Sinitic Sino-Tibetan languages lack
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