Editing Sino-Tibetan languages (section)

===Shafer (1955)===
Shafer criticized the division of the family into [[Tibeto-Burman languages|Tibeto–Burman]] and Sino–Daic branches, which he attributed to the different groups of languages studied by Konow and other scholars in [[British India]] on the one hand and by [[Henri Maspero]] and other French linguists on the other.{{sfnp|Shafer|1955|pp=94–96}} He proposed a detailed classification, with six top-level divisions:{{sfnp|Shafer|1955|pp=99–108}}{{sfnp|Shafer|1966|p=1}}{{efn|For Shafer, the suffix "-ic" denoted a primary division of the family, whereas the suffix "-ish" denoted a sub-division of one of those.}}

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* Sino-Tibetan
** Sinitic
** Daic
** Bodic
** Burmic
** [[Bodo–Garo languages|Baric]]
** Karenic
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Shafer was sceptical of the inclusion of Daic, but after meeting Maspero in Paris decided to retain it pending a definitive resolution of the question.{{sfnp|Shafer|1955|pp=97–99}}{{sfnp|van Driem|2001|pp=343–344}}