Sino-Xenic
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See also: Sinoxenic
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Sino- + xeno- + -ic, from Late Latin Sīnae (“the Chinese”) + Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign”); coined by American linguist Samuel Martin in 1953.
Adjective
Sino-Xenic (not comparable)
- (linguistics) Related to pronunciations for reading Chinese in Japan, Korea and Vietnam, originating in medieval times and the source of large-scale borrowings of Chinese words into Japonic, Koreanic and Vietnamese languages, none of which are genetically related to Chinese (excluding Sinitic topolects).
Translations
Sino-Japanese — see Sino-Japanese
Sino-Korean — see Sino-Korean
Sino-Vietnamese — see Sino-Vietnamese