Tibeto-Burman replaces Indo-Chinese in the 1990s: review of a decade of scholarship

Tibeto-Burman is one of the worldʹs greatest language families, second only to Indo-European in terms of populations of speakers. Advances made in the course of the decade have led to a major paradigm shift in Tibeto-Burman historical linguistics and phylogeny. The numerous contributions to the field in the 1990s are reviewed in a statement on the current state of the art.