Tibetan

E109616

Tibetan is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken primarily in Tibet and surrounding Himalayan regions, serving as the liturgical language of Tibetan Buddhism and a key marker of Tibetan cultural identity.

All labels observed (19)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Sino-Tibetan language
language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Dzongkha
Sherpa language
Sikkimese
country Bhutan
China
India
Nepal
culturalRole key marker of Tibetan cultural identity
dialect Amdo Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan

Central Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan

Khams Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan

Ü-Tsang Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
ethnicAssociation Tibetan ethnicity
historicalAncestor Old Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
historicalStage Classical Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
ISO639-1 bo
ISO639-2 bod
tib
ISO639-3 bod
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan
languageOf Tibetan people
morphologicalType agglutinative
orthographicFeature consonant stacks
inherent vowel system
phonologicalFeature tonal contrasts in many dialects
primaryRegion Bhutan
Gansu
linked to: Gansu Province

India
Ladakh
Nepal
Qinghai
Sichuan
linked to: Sichuan Province

Tibet
Yunnan
linked to: Yunnan Province
religion Tibetan Buddhism
religiousRole liturgical language of Tibetan Buddhism
scriptType abugida
standardVariety Lhasa Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
subfamily Tibeto-Burman
usedBy Tibetan diaspora communities
usedIn Buddhist scriptures
administration in historical Tibet
monastic education
religious rituals
traditional Tibetan literature
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystem Tibetan script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (51)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sino-Tibetan languages includesLanguage Standard Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Sino-Tibetan languages includesLanguage Sherpa language
linked to: Tibetan
Sino-Tibetan languages includesLanguage Lhasa Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Yunnan Province ethnicGroup Tibetan
Nepali American relatedTo Tibetan American
linked to: Tibetan
Ladakh hasLanguage Ladakhi
linked to: Tibetan
Balti hasAncestor Classical Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Balti closelyRelatedTo Ladakhi language
linked to: Tibetan
Tibetan script usedFor Sikkimese language
linked to: Tibetan
Tibetan script usedFor Ladakhi language
linked to: Tibetan
Dunhuang historicalLanguage Tibetan
Tibetan standardVariety Lhasa Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Tibetan dialect Central Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Tibetan dialect Khams Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Tibetan dialect Amdo Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Tibetan dialect Ü-Tsang Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Tibetan historicalAncestor Old Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Tibetan historicalStage Classical Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Qiangic languages hasSubgroup Zhongu Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Proto-Sino-Tibetan ancestorOf Tibetan language
linked to: Tibetan
Tibeto-Burman languages hasSubgroup Tibetic languages
linked to: Tibetan
Tibeto-Burman languages hasMajorLanguage Standard Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Tibeto-Burman languages hasMajorLanguage Central Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
YN hasEthnicGroup Tibetan
Taktser, Amdo, Tibet traditionalLanguage Amdo Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism ritualLanguage Classical Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Inland China languageDiversity TibeticLanguages
linked to: Tibetan
Tibetan Empire language Old Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Shira Yugur language hasContactWith Tibetan languages
linked to: Tibetan
Monguor (Tu) language influencedByLanguage Amdo Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Kangjia language hasLoanwordsFrom Tibetan language
linked to: Tibetan
Tibetan Tengyur language Classical Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Nyingma school scripturalLanguage Classical Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Lan–Yin Mandarin hasInfluenceFrom Tibetic languages
linked to: Tibetan
Bon usesLanguage Classical Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Purgi language closelyRelatedTo Ladakhi language
linked to: Tibetan
Balti language subclassOf Tibetan language
linked to: Tibetan
Balti language hasAncestor Classical Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Balti language preservesFeatureOf Classical Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Balti language closelyRelatedTo Ladakhi language
linked to: Tibetan
Balti language closelyRelatedTo Standard Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Balti language lexicalSimilarityWith Ladakhi language
linked to: Tibetan
’Brug rgyal po language Tibetan language
linked to: Tibetan
རྫོང་ཁ closelyRelatedTo Standard Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Dzong-Ka closelyRelatedTo Standard Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan
Dzong-Ka hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Classical Tibetan
linked to: Tibetan