Language/Tibetan
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Facts about Tibetan
- Language code (ISO 639-3):
bod - Autonyms (how to write "Tibetan" in Tibetan):
ལྷ་སའི་སྐད་ / བོད་སྐད་ - Other names for "Tibetan":
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang, Bod, Central Tibetan, Pohbetian, Poke, Skad, Tebilian, Tibate, Bod Skad, Zang Wen - The Tibetan language is spoken in:
China
Lhasa Tibetan or Standard Tibetan, is the Tibetan dialect spoken by educated people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. It is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
In the traditional "three-branched" classification of Tibetic languages, the Lhasa dialect belongs to the Central Tibetan branch (the other two being Khams Tibetan and Amdo Tibetan).
In terms of mutual intelligibility, Khams could communicate at a basic level with Lhasa Tibetan, while Amdo could not.
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.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_language
Tibetan Dictionaries
• Nic Bommarito: online Tibetan-English dictionary
• Tsadra: Tibetan-English dictionary & Dharma glossaries [[new.htm|[[File:../images/newlink.gif|class=img-0|what's new?]]]]
• Christian Steinert: Tibetan > English dictionary [[new.htm|[[File:../images/newlink.gif|class=img-0|what's new?]]]]
• Tibetan & Himalayan library: Tibetan-English historical dictionary
• Tibetan > English dictionary & translation
• Indo-Tibetan lexical ressources for the study of Buddhism
• English-Tibetan dictionary of Modern Tibetan by Melvyn Goldstein & Ngawangthondup Narkyid (1999)
• Tibetan-English dictionary by Huadan Zhaxi, Kevin Stuart, Rinchen Dorji, Gesang Norbu, Dorji Zhaxi, Rinchen Khar, Gongbu Caireng, Sandra Benson (2007)
• Tibetan-Chinese-English contemporary words, by topics
• Chinese-Tibetan-English dictionary of new daily vocabulary (2009)
• Tibetan dictionary (with meanings in Tibetan) by G. Tharchin (1950) Ka-Ca - Cha-Nya - Da-Pha - Ba-Tsa - Tsha-A
• Dictionnaire thibétain-latin-français: Tibetan-Latin-French dictionary, edited by the Catholic Missionaries in Tibet (1899)
• English-Tibetan colloquial dictionary by Charles Alfred Bell (1920)
• English-Tibetan dictionary by Lama Dawasamdup Kazi (1919)
• Tibetan-English dictionary with Sanskrit synonyms, by Sarat Chandra Das (1902)
• Tibetan-English dictionary with special reference to the prevailing dialects, by Heinrich Jäschke (1881)
• Romanized Tibetan and English dictionary, manuscript, by Heinrich Jäschke (1866)
• Dictionary Tibetan and English by Alexander Csoma de Kőrös (1834)
• Dictionary of the Bhotanta or Boutan Language: Bouthan-English dictionary & grammar, by Friedrich Schroeter (1826)
• Vehicle of wisdom and wit, voice of ridicule and protest, inquiry into the nature of Tibetan proverbs and idiomatic phrases, by Per Sørensen & Franz Xaver Erhard (2011)
Sources
https://www.lexilogos.com/english/tibetan_dictionary.htm