Tibetan, in the sense of the Standard or Lhasa Tibetan literary and spoken norm, is a Tibetic language of the Tibeto-Burman branch of Sino-Tibetan, based on the speech of Lhasa in the Tibet Autonomous Region. It has roughly 1.2 million speakers and is written in the Tibetan script, an abugida of Brahmic descent whose tonal Lhasa and Khams forms have drifted furthest from the more conservative, non-tonal Classical and Amdo Tibetan.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count1990 census figure, the most recent cited in the tertiary literature consulted. RegionTibet Autonomous Region, U-Tsang (China) 2 Classification
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Source Wikipedia: Standard Tibetan
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Source 'Phags-pa script (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia: Standard Tibetan
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1. Glottolog: Tibetan (Glottolog languoid tibe1272)
GlottologEndangerment, AES statusQuote, Endangerment, AES status
AES status: not endangered
2. Wikipedia: Standard Tibetan
WikipediaIntroduction
Lhasa Tibetan or Standard Tibetan is a standardized dialect of Tibetan spoken by the people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region.
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Pronunciation
[pʰø̀k˭ɛʔ]
Official status, Tibetan entity page
It is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
- In Family: Sino-Tibetan, Classification
- Written In: Tibetan Script, Writing system
View the Source 3. WALS Online (World Atlas of Language Structures): Tibetan (Modern Literary) / Order of Subject, Object and Verb (WALS datapoint)
WALS Online (World Atlas of Language Structures)Datapoint pageQuote, Datapoint page
Feature: Order of Subject, Object and Verb by Matthew S. Dryer Value: SOV
4. WALS Online: Datapoint Tibetan (Standard Spoken) / Tone
WALS OnlineFeature 13AQuote, Feature 13A
Value: Simple tone system
'Phags-pa script (Wikipedia)
Written In: 'Phags-pa Script, Lead, languages (Tibetic)Quote, Written In: 'Phags-pa Script, Lead, languages (Tibetic)
The script was used to write and transcribe varieties of Chinese, the Tibetic languages, Mongolian, the Uyghur language, Sanskrit, probably Persian, and other neighboring languages during the Yuan era.
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