ABSTRACT
The Sino-Tibetan or Trans-Himalayan family includes several hundred languages spoken from the Pacific to the far western reaches of the Himalayas. Although Sino-Tibetan studies have seen an explosion of research over the last generation, the field is still in many ways in its infancy. Most of the languages in the family are virtually undocumented – most of the documentation which exists has been done over the last twenty-five years or so, and scholars have barely begun to analyse it for comparative purposes.
