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Zhangzhung language

Zhang-Zhung
Region Western Tibet and Central Asia
Era 7th–10th century
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Linguist list
xzh
Glottolog zhan1239
Marchen
Type
Languages Zhang-Zhung
Direction Left-to-right
ISO 15924 Marc, 332
Unicode alias
Marchen
U+11C70–U+11CBF

Zhang-Zhung (Tibetan: ཞང་ཞུངWylie: zhang zhung) is an extinct Sino-Tibetan language that was spoken in what is now western Tibet. It is attested in a bilingual text called A Cavern of Treasures (mDzod phug) and several shorter texts.

A small number of documents preserved in Dunhuang contain an undeciphered language that has been called Old Zhangzhung, but the identification is controversial.

A Cavern of Treasures (Tibetan: མཛོད་ཕུགWylie: mdzod phug) is a terma uncovered by Shenchen Luga (Tibetan: གཤེན་ཆེན་ཀླུ་དགའWylie: gshen chen klu dga') in the early eleventh century. Martin (n.d.: p. 21) identifies the importance of this scripture for studies of the Zhang-zhung language:


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