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Tibetan  

Definition

  • The Tibetic or Tibetan languages (Bodish) are a cluster of mutually unintelligible Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering the Indian subcontinent, including the Tibetan Plateau and the northern Indian subcontinent in Baltistan, Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan. The classical written form is a major regional literary language, particularly for its use in Buddhist literature.Most Tibetic languages are written in an Indic script, with a historically conservative orthography (see below) that helps unify the Tibetan-language area. However, some Ladakhi and Balti speakers write with the Urdu script.

Identifier

  • BOD

Notation

  • BO
  • bo
  • bod
  • tib

In other languages

  • тибетски

    Bulgarian

  • tibetski

    Croatian

  • tibetština

    Czech

  • tibetansk

    Danish

  • Tibetaans

    Dutch

  • tiibeti keel

    Estonian

  • tiibet

    Finnish

  • tibétain

    French

  • Tibetisch

    German

  • θιβετιανά

    Greek

  • tibeti

    Hungarian

  • tibetanska

    Icelandic

  • Tibetanis

    Irish

  • tibetano

    Italian

  • tibetiešu valoda

    Latvian

  • tibetiečių kalba

    Lithuanian

  • тибетски

    Macedonian

  • Tibetan

    Maltese

  • tibetanske

    Norwegian

  • tybetański

    Polish

  • tibetano

    Portuguese

  • tibetană

    Romanian

  • тибетский

    Russian

  • tibetski

    Serbo-Croatian

  • tibetčina

    Slovak

  • tibetanščina

    Slovenian

  • tibetano

    Spanish

  • tibetanska

    Swedish

  • བོད་སྐད།

    Tibetan

  • bod-skad
  • tibetçe

    Turkish

  • тибетська мова

    Ukrainian

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/BOD

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