> do you think prefixing rather than suffixing is due to the Tibetan
component of Old Chinese?
Sino-Tibetan languages, of which Chinese is one, are prefixing.
Modern Chinese is considered to be exclusively suffixing, due to the
influence of Altaic on the the ruling layer.
> And, secondarily, what other language families showing prefixing
might Tibetan related to?
Tibetan is a Sino-Tibetan language.
Torsten
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