Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language[note 1]
Language codes
ISO 639-1
bo
ISO 639-2
tib (B) bod (T)
ISO 639-3
bod
Glottolog
tibe1272
Linguasphere
70-AAA-ac
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Lhasa Tibetan[a] (Tibetan: ལྷ་སའི་སྐད་, Wylie: Lha-sa'i skad, THL: Lhaséké, ZYPY: Lasägä), or Standard Tibetan, is the Tibetan dialect spoken by educated people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region.[2] It is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region.[3]
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).[4] In terms of mutual intelligibility, speakers of Khams Tibetan are able to communicate at a basic level with Lhasa Tibetan, while Amdo speakers cannot.[4] Both Lhasa Tibetan and Khams Tibetan evolved to become tonal and do not preserve the word-initial consonant clusters, which makes them very far from Classical Tibetan, especially when compared to the more conservative Amdo Tibetan.[5][6]
^Lhasa Tibetan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^DeLancey, Scott (2017). "Chapter 19: Lhasa Tibetan". In Graham Thurgood and Randy J. LaPolla (ed.). The Sino-Tibetan Languages, 2nd edition. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-367-57045-3.
^"Fifty Years of Democratic Reform in Tibet". Official Chinese government site. 2009-03-02. Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2010-10-16.
^ abGelek, Konchok (2017). "Variation, contact, and change in language: Varieties in Yul shul (northern Khams)". International Journal of the Sociology of Language (245): 91-92.
^Makley, Charlene; Dede, Keith; Hua, Kan; Wang, Qingshan (1999). "The Amdo Dialect of Labrang" (PDF). Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. 22 (1): 101. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05.
^Reynolds, Jermay J. (2012). Language variation and change in an Amdo Tibetan village: Gender, education and resistance(PDF) (PhD thesis). Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University. p. 19-21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-12.
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characters. LhasaTibetan (Tibetan: ལྷ་སའི་སྐད་, Wylie: Lha-sa'i skad, THL: Lhaséké, ZYPY: Lasägä), or Standard Tibetan, is the Tibetan dialect spoken...
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The 1959 Tibetan uprising (also known by other names) began on 10 March 1959, when a revolt erupted in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, which had been under...
has been used as an interior watchdog. Lhasa is the capital city of Tibet, and apso is a word from the Tibetan language. There is some debate over the...
the name in Tibetan script, དབུས་, whereas Ü is the pronunciation of the same in Lhasa dialect, [wy˧˥˧ʔ] (or [y˧˥˧ʔ]). That is, in Tibetan, the name is...
students learning the language for translation of Tibetan texts. Outside Lhasa itself, LhasaTibetan is spoken by approximately 200,000 exile speakers...
more conservative Amdo Tibetan. Also, Kham and LhasaTibetan evolved to be tonal, which Classical Tibetan was not. Khams Tibetan has 80% lexical similarity...
783 treaty between the Tibetan Empire and the Tang dynasty defined the borders, as commemorated by the Shol Potala Pillar in Lhasa. Borders were again confirmed...
or other symbols instead of Tibetan characters. Tibet (/tɪˈbɛt/ ; Tibetan: བོད, Lhasa dialect: [pʰøːʔ˨˧˩] Böd; Chinese: 西藏; pinyin: Xīzàng), or Greater...
Tibetan grammar describes the morphology, syntax and other grammatical features of LhasaTibetan, a Sino-Tibetan language. LhasaTibetan is typologically...
consonant clusters. As a result, in all modern Tibetan dialects and in particular in the Standard Tibetan of Lhasa, there is a great divergence between current...
Amdo Tibetan (Tibetan script: ཨ་མདོའི་སྐད་, Wylie: A-mdo’i skad, Lhasa dialect: [ámtokɛ́ʔ]; also called Am kä) is the Tibetic language spoken in Amdo...
from present-day Lhasa. The dates attributed to the first Tibetan king, Nyatri Tsenpo (Wylie: Gnya'-khri-btsan-po), vary. Some Tibetan texts give 126 BC...
Tibetan language may refer to: Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard LhasaTibetan, the most widely used...
The Potala Palace is a dzong fortress in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China. It was the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas from 1649...
Panchen Lama, portrayed itself as an ally to the Tibetan conservatives. Residents evacuated the city of Lhasa during the Monlam Prayer Festival and Butter...
Qing dynasty had started to send resident commissioners (Ambans) to Lhasa. Tibetan factions rebelled in 1750 and killed the resident commissioners after...
the Tibetan government (or Ganden Phodrang) in Lhasa, which governed all or most of the Tibetan Plateau with varying degrees of autonomy. This Tibetan government...
Lhasa Gonggar Airport (IATA: LXA, ICAO: ZULS) is the airport serving Lhasa, the capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China...
Tibetan Radio, which is based on the Lhasa dialect. It has been used within China as an alternative to the Wylie transliteration for writing Tibetan in...
Edition published between 1910 and 1911, the total population of the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, including the lamas in the city and vicinity, was about 30,000...
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recognized as "Tibetan Muslims" and "Tibetan Muslims" by the surrounding ethnic groups. The Tibetan Hui in Lhasa (unlike other Tibetan Muslims living...
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returned to Lhasa in 1913 and ruled an independent Tibet until his death in 1933. The de facto independent Tibetan government (1912–1951) and Tibetan exiles...
altitudes. Tibetan Mastiff with its owner in 1911 Tibetan Mastiff in Drepung Monastery, Lhasa, Tibet Tibetan Mastiff in Sandakpur, Nepal Tibetan Mastiff...
of Central Plains Mandarin, and his family speak neither Amdo Tibetan nor LhasaTibetan. Lanzhou dialect [zh] (simplified Chinese: 兰州话; traditional Chinese:...
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