sinitic language

English Thesaurus

1. a group of Sino-Tibetan languages (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	sino-tibetan, sino-tibetan language,
definition	:	the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	chinese,
definition	:	any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system (noun.communication)