Tibetan script information

Tibetan
Tibetan;
	The mantra "Om mani padme hum"
Script type	Abugida
Time period	c. 650–present
Direction	Left-to-right
Languages	Tibetan; Dzongkha; Ladakhi; Sikkimese; Balti; Sherpa; Jirel; Yolmo; Tshangla; Sanskrit;
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Aramaic Brahmi Gupta Tibetan; ; ; ; ; ;
Child systems	Meitei; Lepcha; Khema; Phagspa; Marchen; Tamyig;
Sister systems	Sharada, Siddham, Kalinga, Bhaiksuki
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Tibt (330), Tibetan
Unicode
Unicode alias	Tibetan
Unicode range	U+0F00–U+0FFF Final Accepted Script Proposal of the First Usable Edition (3.0)
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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]

^ 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.
^ Masica, Colin (1993). The Indo-Aryan languages. p. 143.
^ ^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
^ Singh, Harimohon Thounaojam (January 2011), The Evolution and Recent Development of the Meetei Mayek Script, Cambridge University Press India, p. 28
^ 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.
^ Chamberlain 2008
^ ^a ^b Daniels, Peter T. and William Bright. The World's Writing Systems. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

[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.

[masica-2] Masica, Colin (1993). The Indo-Aryan languages. p. 143.

[Meithei-3] 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

[daniels-7] Daniels, Peter T. and William Bright. The World's Writing Systems. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

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