Sinitic

/səˈnɪdɪk/

Definitions of Sinitic

1. adjective

   of or relating to the Chinese people or their language or culture
   “Sinitic dialects”
2. noun

   a group of Sino-Tibetan languages
   synonyms: Sinitic language

   types:

   Chinese

   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

   Beijing dialect, Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect

   the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China

   Shanghai dialect, Wu, Wu dialect

   a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta

   Cantonese, Cantonese dialect, Yue, Yue dialect

   the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China

   Amoy, Fukien, Fukkianese, Hokkianese, Min, Min dialect, Taiwanese

   any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province

   Hakka, Hakka dialect

   a dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China by the Hakka

   type of:

   Sino-Tibetan, Sino-Tibetan language

   the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia