Chinese languages

DarkGhost, Sino-Tibetan is at the same level as Indo-European, being the level of "Family". "Germanic", "Latin" are subfamilies of Indo-European. In a level of family, there's no need to be in the precise order, like French and English. Oh, or are you making a new kind...

-Different vocab. example: "we" in Mandarin would be "Wo men", in Shanghainese it would be "A la", which is written with different characters. -Shanghainese has some SOV expressions, while Mandarin is mainly SVO (like most other Chinese dialects). -Shanghainese lost all...

Rofl, no. Hakka's came from central/north China. Henan, Shaanxi province etc. There's no way Hakkas came from Korea/Japan.

Vietnamese is not a Sino-Tibetian language. Vietnamese words that are similar to Cantonese and other Chinese dialects were adopted by the Vietnamese during Chinese rule. Before Chinese rule, the Vietnamese spoke a language totally unrelated to Chinese, but instead related to Khmer (and possibly Thai...