Editing Sino-Tibetan languages (section)

===Matisoff (1978, 2015)===
[[James Matisoff]] abandoned Benedict's Tibeto–Karen hypothesis:

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* Sino-Tibetan
** Chinese
** Tibeto-Burman
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Some more-recent Western scholars, such as Bradley (1997) and La Polla (2003), have retained Matisoff's two primary branches, though differing in the details of Tibeto–Burman. However, Jacques (2006) notes, "comparative work has never been able to put forth evidence for common innovations to all the Tibeto–Burman languages (the Sino–Tibetan languages to the exclusion of Chinese)"{{efn|les travaux de comparatisme n'ont jamais pu mettre en évidence l'existence d'innovations communes à toutes les langues « tibéto-birmanes » (les langues sino-tibétaines à l'exclusion du chinois)}} and that "it no longer seems justified to treat Chinese as the first branching of the Sino–Tibetan family,"{{efn|il ne semble plus justifié de traiter le chinois comme le premier embranchement primaire de la famille sino-tibétaine}} because the morphological divide between Chinese and Tibeto–Burman has been bridged by recent reconstructions of [[Old Chinese]].

The internal structure of Sino–Tibetan has been tentatively revised as the following [[Stammbaum]] by Matisoff in the final print release of the ''[[Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus|Sino–Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus]]'' (STEDT) in 2015.{{sfnp|Matisoff|2015|pp=xxxii, 1123–1127}} Matisoff acknowledges that the position of Chinese within the family remains an open question.{{sfnp|Matisoff|2015|p=xxxi}}

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*Sino-Tibetan
**Chinese
**Tibeto-Burman
***Northeast Indian areal group
****"North Assam"
*****[[Tani languages|Tani]]
*****[[Digaro languages|Deng]]
****[[Kukish languages|Kuki-Chin]]
****"[[Naga languages|Naga]]" areal group
*****Central Naga ([[Ao languages|Ao]] group)
*****[[Angami–Pochuri languages|Angami–Pochuri]] group
*****[[Zeme languages|Zeme]] group
*****[[Tangkhul languages|Tangkhulic]]
****[[Meitei language|Meitei]]
****Mikir / [[Karbi language|Karbi]]
****[[Mruic languages|Mru]]
****[[Sal languages|Sal]]
*****[[Bodo–Garo languages|Bodo–Garo]]
*****Northern Naga / [[Konyak languages|Konyakian]]
*****[[Kachin–Luic languages|Jingpho–Asakian]]
***Himalayish
****[[Tibeto-Kanauri languages|Tibeto-Kanauri]]
*****[[West Himalayish languages|Western Himalayish]]
*****[[Bodish languages|Bodic]]
*****[[Lepcha language|Lepcha]]
*****[[Tamangic languages|Tamangish]]
*****[[Dhimal languages|Dhimal]]
****[[Newar language|Newar]]
****[[Kiranti languages|Kiranti]]
****[[Kham language|Kham]]-[[Magaric languages|Magar]]-[[Chepangic languages|Chepang]]
***Tangut-Qiang
****[[Tangut language|Tangut]]
****[[Qiangic languages|Qiangic]]
****[[Rgyalrongic languages|Rgyalrongic]]
***[[Nungish languages|Nungic]]
***[[Tujia language|Tujia]]
***Lolo-Burmese–Naxi
****[[Lolo-Burmese languages|Lolo-Burmese]]
****[[Naic languages|Naxi]]
***[[Karenic languages|Karenic]]
***[[Bai language|Bai]]
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