tongue vs Sino-Tibetan language

Sino-Tibetan language vs tongue

tongue and Sino-Tibetan language both are nouns.

tongue is a verb but Sino-Tibetan language is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tongue	Yes	No	Yes	No
Sino-Tibetan language	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Sino-Tibetan language is a hyponym of tongue; that is, Sino-Tibetan language is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than tongue:

tongue: a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
Sino-Tibetan language: the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia

Other hyponyms of tongue include first language, maternal language, mother tongue, tonal language, tone language, creole, American-Indian language, American Indian, American Indian language, Amerind, Amerind language, Amerindian language, Indian, Indian language, Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo-Aleut language, Chukchi, Chukchi language, Sino-Tibetan, Austro-Asiatic, Austro-Asiatic language, Munda-Mon-Khmer, Hmong, Hmong language, Miao, Miao language, Austronesian, Austronesian language, Papuan, Papuan language, Khoisan, Khoisan language, Indo-European, Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite, Ural-Altaic, Basque, Basque language, Elamite, Elamite language, Elamitic, Elamitic language, Susian, Susian language, Cassite, Cassite language, Kassite, Kassite language, Caucasian, Caucasian language, Dravidian, Dravidian language, Dravidic, Afrasian, Afrasian language, Afro-Asiatic, Afroasiatic, Afroasiatic language, Hamito-Semitic, Niger-Kordofanian, Niger-Kordofanian language, Nilo-Saharan, Nilo-Saharan language, standard language.

tongue (noun)	Sino-Tibetan language (noun)
the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot	the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia
metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
a manner of speaking
the tongue of certain animals used as meat
a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
any long thin projection that is transient

tongue (verb)	Sino-Tibetan language (verb)
lick or explore with the tongue
articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments

Difference between tongue and Sino-Tibetan language

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