{"id": "card_floor_sino_tibetan", "kind": "note", "title": "Sino-Tibetan — a language family: branches descending from Proto-Sino-Tibetan", "body": "The Sino-Tibetan family as a floor on the one map: its daughter BRANCHES are the trees, descending from Proto-Sino-Tibetan — a RECONSTRUCTION (a postulate: cited to the comparative method, inferred from the regular correspondences among the attested languages, never kept as a fact and never sealed). The branches and their languages are attested; Proto-Sino-Tibetan is reconstructed. The family is held SEPARATE from the others (no contested macro-family). At Babel the one language became many (Genesis 11); this is one of those tongues. Found, never generated (tools/seed_language_families.py).", "source": {"label": "Narrow Highway — the Sino-Tibetan floor (the comparative method)", "url": "", "domain": "linguistics", "authority_tier": "engine_derived"}, "shelf": "codex", "box": "floor", "bands": ["floor", "sino-tibetan", "language family", "linguistics", "etymology", "one map", "babel"], "subject": "Sino-Tibetan", "connections": [{"to_card_id": "card_k_floor_of_discovery", "relationship": "part_of", "evidence": "the Sino-Tibetan floor rests on the one Floor of Discovery"}, {"to_card_id": "card_sino_tibetan_branch_sinitic", "relationship": "has_part", "evidence": "a branch (tree) of the Sino-Tibetan family: Sinitic"}, {"to_card_id": "card_sino_tibetan_branch_tibeto_burman", "relationship": "has_part", "evidence": "a branch (tree) of the Sino-Tibetan family: Tibeto-Burman"}], "author": "engine", "created_at": 0.0, "updated_at": 0.0, "visibility": "public", "lifecycle_stage": "public", "volatility": "permanent", "surface": "secular", "generated": false, "call": "codex.floor", "facets": {"subject": ["babel", "etymology", "language family", "linguistics", "one map", "sino-tibetan"]}, "presentation": {"glyph": "•", "kind_label": "floor", "by": "Narrow Highway — the Sino-Tibetan floor (the comparative method)", "authority": "engine_derived", "posted": "", "standing": ""}, "neighbors": [{"id": "card_k_floor_of_discovery", "title": "The Floor of Discovery — one floor, and by its design the fear of God", "relationship": "part of", "why": "the Sino-Tibetan floor rests on the one Floor of Discovery", "href": "/card/card_k_floor_of_discovery", "resolved": true}, {"id": "card_sino_tibetan_branch_sinitic", "title": "Sinitic — a branch of Sino-Tibetan", "relationship": "has part", "why": "a branch (tree) of the Sino-Tibetan family: Sinitic", "href": "/card/card_sino_tibetan_branch_sinitic", "resolved": true}, {"id": "card_sino_tibetan_branch_tibeto_burman", "title": "Tibeto-Burman — a branch of Sino-Tibetan", "relationship": "has part", "why": "a branch (tree) of the Sino-Tibetan family: Tibeto-Burman", "href": "/card/card_sino_tibetan_branch_tibeto_burman", "resolved": true}], "house": {"door": "FIND", "kind": "card", "trail": "connections", "seal": "/card/card_floor_sino_tibetan", "next_step": {"do": "follow a connection: what this card rests on, and what rests on it", "door": "FIND", "tool": "card_connections", "params": {"id": "card_floor_sino_tibetan"}}, "ends": "a verdict or a card · the trail · a seal · one next step"}}