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Tibetan
The mantra "Om mani padme hum"
Script type
Abugida
Time period
c. 650–present
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Languages
  • Tibetan
  • Dzongkha
  • Ladakhi
  • Sikkimese
  • Balti
  • Sherpa
  • Jirel
  • Yolmo
  • Tshangla
  • Sanskrit
Related scripts
Parent systems
Egyptian
  • Proto-Sinaitic
    • Phoenician
      • Aramaic
        • Brahmi
          • Gupta[1][2]
            • Tibetan
Child systems
  • Meitei[3][4]
  • Lepcha
  • Khema
  • Phagspa
  • Marchen
  • Tamyig
Sister systems
Sharada, Siddham, Kalinga, Bhaiksuki
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Tibt (330), ​Tibetan
Unicode
Unicode alias
Tibetan
Unicode range
U+0F00–U+0FFF Final Accepted Script Proposal of the First Usable Edition (3.0)
 This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and  , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

The Tibetan script is a segmental writing system (abugida) of Indic origin used to write certain Tibetic languages, including Tibetan, Dzongkha, Sikkimese, Ladakhi, Jirel and Balti. It has also been used for some non-Tibetic languages in close cultural contact with Tibet, such as Thakali[5] and Old Turkic. The printed form is called uchen script while the hand-written cursive form used in everyday writing is called umê script. This writing system is used across the Himalayas and Tibet.

The script is closely linked to a broad ethnic Tibetan identity, spanning across areas in India, Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet.[6] The Tibetan script is of Brahmic origin from the Gupta script and is ancestral to scripts such as Meitei,[3] Lepcha,[7] Marchen and the multilingual ʼPhags-pa script.[7]

  1. ^ Daniels, Peter T. (January 2008). "Writing systems of major and minor languages". In Kachru, Braj B.; Kachru, Yamuna; Sridhar, S. N. (eds.). Language in South Asia. pp. 285–308. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511619069.017. ISBN 978-0-521-78653-9.
  2. ^ Masica, Colin (1993). The Indo-Aryan languages. p. 143.
  3. ^ a b Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi (2011). A Grammar of Meithei. De Gruyter. p. 355. ISBN 9783110801118. Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2023-03-19. Meithei Mayek is part of the Tibetan group of scripts, which originated from the Gupta Brahmi script
  4. ^ Singh, Harimohon Thounaojam (January 2011), The Evolution and Recent Development of the Meetei Mayek Script, Cambridge University Press India, p. 28
  5. ^ Manzardo, Andrew E. "Impression Management and Economic Growth: The Case of the Thakalis of Dhaulagiri Zone" (PDF). Kailash: A Journal of Himalayan Studies. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-11-20. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
  6. ^ Chamberlain 2008
  7. ^ a b Daniels, Peter T. and William Bright. The World's Writing Systems. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

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