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Book's First PageThe Sino-Tibetan family calls for the least branch are spoken, principally in the Tibet region of China, Bhutan and Myanmar (Burma). Only the Garo language spoken in western Meghalaya is separated from the main Tibetan zone in the north, by a narrow belt of Indo- Aryan languages (Bengali and Assamese); and this Indo-Aryan intrusion may have occurred much later than the arrival of the Tibeto-Burmese branch in the area. Generalisations • Most languages normally tend to be spoken in geographically defined regions, since their spread depends on the degree of human interaction. People are also usually inclined to mingle more and intermarry within such regions, so that eventually, a broad association between genetic and linguistic borders starts emerging. But such association could also be misleading. Hence, the point should not be stretched too far. • In fact, there are no genetic controls by which one person speaks one language better than another. In other words, particularities of pronunciation are transmitted not by birth, but through what a person hears, especially in childhood, both at home and outside. Thus, there is no necessary association between a language group and a genetic group, which in popular parlance, is called a race. • This can be proved by many examples. Turkic is a relatively young family of languages (not older than 1,500 years), presently spoken over large parts of Asia and Europe. The spread of these languages was caused mostly by migrations (originally from Mongolia and western China) that are fairly well documented by historical sources. But the people of Turkey, the leading Turkish-speaking country today, are ‘Caucasoids’, genetically very close to Greeks, and quite distant from the oldest Turkic-speaking people, the Uighurs of western China, who are ‘northern Mongoloids’. WRITING AND LANGUAGES The advent of writing signifies an epochal advance in any society. Except