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Central Tibetan language

Index Central Tibetan language

Central Tibetan, also known as Dbus, Ü or Ü-Tsang, is the most widely spoken Tibetic language and the basis of Standard Tibetan. [1]

22 relations: Amdo Tibetan, Ü-Tsang, Balti language, Basum language, Bodish languages, Dolpo, Humla District, Khams Tibetan, Ladakhi language, Limi, Mugom dialect, Mutual intelligibility, Nepal, Olangchung Gola, Prestige (sociolinguistics), Standard Tibetan, Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibetan alphabet, Tibetic languages, Tibeto-Kanauri languages, Tseku language, Upper Mustang.

Amdo Tibetan

The Amdo language (also called Am kä) is the Tibetic language spoken by the majority of Amdo Tibetans, mainly in Qinghai and some parts of Sichuan (Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture) and Gansu (Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture).

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Ü-Tsang

Ü-Tsang or Tsang-Ü, is one of the three traditional provinces of Tibet, the other two being Amdo and Kham.

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Balti language

Balti (Nastaʿlīq script) is a Tibetic language spoken in the Baltistan region of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, the Nubra Valley of Leh district, and in the Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir, India.

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Basum language

Basum (autonym: brag gsum 'three cliffs'; Basong 巴松话) is a Central Tibetan language spoken by about 2,500 people in Gongbo'gyamda County 工布江达县, Nyingtri Prefecture, Tibet, China.

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Bodish languages

Bodish, named for the Tibetan ethnonym Bod, is a proposed grouping consisting of the Tibetic languages and associated Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in Tibet, North India, Nepal, Bhutan, and North Pakistan.

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Dolpo

Dolpo (དོལ་པོ) is a high-altitude culturally Tibetan region in the upper part of the Dolpa District of western Nepal, bordered in the north by China.

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Humla District

Humla District(हुम्ला जिल्ला, a part of Karnali province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Simikot as its district headquarters, covers an area of 5,655 km² and has population of 50,858 as per the census of 2011. The Northern part of Humla District is inhabited by Buddhists, originating from Tibet, whereas the South is mostly inhabited by Hindus.

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Khams Tibetan

Khams Tibetan is the Tibetic language used by the majority of the people in Kham, which is now divided between the eastern part of Tibet Autonomous Region, the southern part of Qinghai, the western part of Sichuan, and the northwestern part of Yunnan, China.

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Ladakhi language

The Ladakhi language, also called Bhoti or Bodhi, is a Tibetic language spoken in the Ladakh region of India.

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Limi

Limi is a valley in Humla District in the Karnali Zone of north-western Nepal.

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Mugom dialect

Mugom (Mugu, Mugum) is a variety of Tibetic spoken by over 6,000 people in Nepal and about 500 in India.

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Mutual intelligibility

In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort.

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Nepal

Nepal (नेपाल), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal (सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल), is a landlocked country in South Asia located mainly in the Himalayas but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

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Olangchung Gola

Olangchung Gola (locally as Walung or Holung) is a village development committee in the Himalayas of Taplejung District in the Mechi Zone of north-eastern Nepal.

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Prestige (sociolinguistics)

Prestige is the level of regard normally accorded a specific language or dialect within a speech community, relative to other languages or dialects.

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Standard Tibetan

Standard Tibetan is the most widely spoken form of the Tibetic languages.

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Tibet Autonomous Region

The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) or Xizang Autonomous Region, called Tibet or Xizang for short, is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Tibetan alphabet

The Tibetan alphabet is an abugida used to write the Tibetic languages such as Tibetan, as well as Dzongkha, Sikkimese, Ladakhi, and sometimes Balti.

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Tibetic languages

The Tibetic languages are a cluster of Sino-Tibetan languages descended from Old Tibetan, spoken across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering the Indian subcontinent, including the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas in Baltistan, Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan.

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Tibeto-Kanauri languages

The Tibeto-Kanauri languages, also called Bodic, Bodish–Himalayish, and Western Tibeto-Burman, are a proposed intermediate level of classification of the Sino-Tibetan languages, centered on the Tibetic languages and the Kinnauri dialect cluster.

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Tseku language

Tseku (Tzuku) is a Tibetic language of Tibet.

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Upper Mustang

Mustang (from the Tibetan möntang, मुस्तांग Mustāṃg "fertile plain"), formerly Kingdom of Lo, is a remote and isolated region of the Nepalese Himalayas.

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Baragaunle language, Central Tibetan, Central Tibetan languages, Central Tibetic languages, Dbus language, Dbus.skad, Dol-po language, Dolpo language, Ha-lung Tibetan language, Humla Bhotia language, Humla language, ISO 639:dre, ISO 639:hut, ISO 639:kte, ISO 639:lhm, ISO 639:loy, ISO 639:ola, ISO 639:tcn, ISO 639:thw, Khaccad Bhote language, Khaccaḍ Bhoṭe language, Kutang Bhotia language, Lhomi language, Limirong Tibetan language, Limirong language, Loke Tibetan language, Loke language, Lokä language, Lowa language, Nubri language, Nupri language, Olangchung Gola language, Shingsaba language, The people of lowa, Thudam Bhote language, Thudam language, Tichurong language, Walungge, Walungge language, Ü language, Ü-Tsang language.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Tibetan_language

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