The Tibetan language or Standard Tibetan is a Tibetic language spoken in Tibet, a region of China. It is one of the many Han–Tibetan languages. It has been spoken for many centuries (since at least the 6th century, possibly earlier).
| Standard Tibetan | |
|---|---|
| ལྷ་སའི་སྐད་ lha-sa'i skad | |
| Native to | China |
Native speakers | (1.3 million cited 1990 census) ca. 5 million of broader Tibetan |
Sino-Tibetan
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Early forms | |
| Tibetan alphabet Tibetan Braille | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  China
|
| Regulated by | Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | bo |
| ISO 639-2 | tib (B) bod (T) |
| ISO 639-3 | bod |
Tibetan has many dialects and Standard Tibetan is one of them. People who speak different dialects often cannot easily communicate with each other orally.
The Tibetan written language is not known by most Tibetans and is not taught in many Tibetan areas.
The use of writing systems in Tibeto-Burman languages appears to be very restricted. Tibetan is one of four Tibeto-Burman languages with an old written tradition (the other three being Meitei (or Manipuri), Burmese, and Newar).[2]
References
change- ↑ Tibetan: བོད་ཡིག་བརྡ་ཚད་ལྡན་དུ་སྒྱུར་བའི་ལ ས་དོན་ཨུ་ཡོན་ལྷན་ཁང་གིས་བསྒྲིགས
Chinese: 藏语术语标准化工作委员会 - ↑ Contributions to Nepalese Studies. Nepal: Institute of Nepal and Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University (in collaboration with University of Michigan), 1993. p. 171. "The use of writing systems in T-B seems to be very restricted. Newari is one of four T-B languages with an old written tradition (the other three being Tibetan, Burmese and Manipuri) and the only member of the Himalayan group with such a tradition. ..."
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