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  2. Tibetic languages - Wikipedia

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    The Tibetic languages form a well-defined group of languages descending from Old Tibetan (7th to 9th centuries, [2] or to the 11th/12th centuries). According to Nicolas Tournadre, there are 50 Tibetic languages, which branch into more than 200 dialects, which could be grouped into eight dialect continua. [2]

  3. Old Tibetan - Wikipedia

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    Old Tibetan refers to the earliest attested form of Tibetan language, reflected in documents from the adoption of writing by the Tibetan Empire in the mid-7th century to the early 9th century. In 816 CE, during the reign of Tibetan King Sadnalegs , literary Tibetan underwent comprehensive standardization, resulting in Classical Tibetan .

  4. Sino-Tibetan languages - Wikipedia

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    Sino-Tibetan (sometimes referred to as Trans-Himalayan) [1] [2] is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. [3] Around 1.4 billion people speak a Sino-Tibetan language. [4]

  5. Tibetans - Wikipedia

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    Tibetan folk opera, known as lhamo, is a combination of dances, chants and songs. The repertoire is drawn from Buddhist stories and Tibetan history. [49] Tibetan opera was founded in the fourteenth century by Thang Tong Gyalpo, a lama and a bridge-builder. Gyalpo and seven girls he recruited organized the first performance to raise funds for ...

  6. Etymology of Tibet - Wikipedia

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    The Standard or Central Tibetan endonym for Tibet, Bod (Tibetan: བོད་), is pronounced , transliterated Bhö or Phö. Rolf Stein (1922) explains, . The name Tibetans give their country, Bod (now pronounced Pö in the Central dialect, as we have seen), was closely rendered and preserved by their Indian neighbours to the south, as Bhoṭa, Bhauṭa or Bauṭa.

  7. Tibetan script - Wikipedia

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    The Tibetan script is a segmental writing system, or abugida, derived from Brahmic scripts and Gupta script, and used to write certain Tibetic languages, including Tibetan, Dzongkha, Sikkimese, Ladakhi, Jirel and Balti. It was originally developed c. 620 by Tibetan minister Thonmi Sambhota for King Songtsen Gampo. [5] [6]

  8. Tibetan language - Wikipedia

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    Tibetan language may refer to: Lhasa Tibetan or Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken dialect Classical Tibetan , the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard

  9. Classical Tibetan - Wikipedia

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    Classical Tibetan refers to the language of any text written in Tibetic after the Old Tibetan period. Though it extends from the 12th century until the modern day, [ 1 ] it particularly refers to the language of early canonical texts translated from other languages, especially Sanskrit .