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The Tibetic languages form a well-defined group of languages descended from Old Tibetan (7th to 9th centuries). According to Tournadre (2014), there are 50 languages, which split into over 200 dialects or could be grouped into 8 dialect continua.
- Central Tibetan
Central Tibetan, also known as Dbus, Ü or Ü-Tsang, is the...
- Tamangic
The Tamangic languages, TGTM languages, or West Bodish...
- Amdo Tibetan
Amdo Tibetan (Tibetan script: ཨ་མདོའི་སྐད་, Wylie: A-mdo’i...
- Classical Tibetan
Classical Tibetan refers to the language of any text written...
- Central Tibetan
The Tibetic languages are spoken by some 6 million people on the Tibetan Plateau and neighbouring areas in the Himalayas and western Sichuan. They are descended from Old Tibetan, which was originally spoken in the Yarlung Valley before it was spread by the expansion of the Tibetan Empire in the seventh century.
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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). Tibetan has many dialects and Standard Tibetan is one of them.
Tibeto-Burman languages. The Tibeto-Burman languages are the non- Sinitic members of the Sino-Tibetan language family, over 400 of which are spoken throughout the Southeast Asian Massif ("Zomia") as well as parts of East Asia and South Asia. Around 60 million people speak Tibeto-Burman languages. [1] .
It is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region. In the traditional "three-branched" classification of the Tibetic languages, the Lhasa dialect belongs to the Central Tibetan branch (the other two being Khams Tibetan and Amdo Tibetan).
Tibetan language may refer to: Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard; Lhasa Tibetan, the most widely used spoken dialect; Any of the other Tibetic languages; See also. Old Tibetan, the language used from the 7th to the 11th century; Central Tibetan language, which forms the basis of Standard Tibetan
