Central Tibetan language
| Central Tibetan | |
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| Ü-Tsang | |
| དབུས་སྐད་ Dbus skad / Ükä དབུས་གཙང་སྐད་ Dbus-gtsang skad / Ü-tsang kä |
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| Pronunciation | [wýkɛʔ, wýʔtsáŋ kɛʔ] |
| Native to | China (Tibet Autonomous Region), Nepal, India |
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Native speakers
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(1.2 million cited 1990 census) |
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Standard forms
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| Tibetan script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously: bod – Lhasa Tibetan dre – Dolpo hut – Humla, Limi lhm – Lhomi (Shing Saapa) muk – Mugom (Mugu) kte – Nubri ola – Walungge (Gola) loy – Lowa/Loke (Mustang) tcn – Tichurong thw – Thudam (duplicate code) |
| Glottolog |
tibe1272 (Tibetan)sout3216 (South-Western Tibetic (partial match))basu1243 (Basum)
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Central Tibetan, also known as Dbus a.k.a. Ü or Ü-Tsang, is the most widely spoken Tibetic language and the basis of Standard Tibetan.
Dbus and Ü are forms of the same name. Dbus is a transliteration of 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 spelled Dbus and pronounced Ü. All of these names are frequently applied specifically to the prestige dialect of Lhasa.
There are many mutually intelligible Central Tibetan dialects besides that of Lhasa, with particular diversity along the border and in Nepal:
Ethnologue reports that Walungge is highly intelligible with Thudam, Glottolog that Thudam is not a distinct variety. Tournadre (2013) classifies Tseku with Khams.
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