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Standard Tibetan and most other Tibetic languages are written in the Tibetan script with a historically conservative orthography (see below) that helps unify the Tibetan-language area. Some other Tibetan languages (in India and Nepal) are written in the related Devanagari script, which is also used to write Hindi, Nepali and
Though the division of Sino-Tibetan into Sinitic and Tibeto-Burman branches (e.g. Benedict, Matisoff) is widely used, some historical linguists criticize this classification, as the non-Sinitic Sino-Tibetan languages lack any shared innovations in phonology or morphology [2] to show that they comprise a clade of the phylogenetic tree. [3] [4] [5]
Dzongkha is a Central Bodish language [2] with approximately 160,000 native speakers as of 2006. [3] It is the dominant language in Western Bhutan, where most native speakers are found. It was declared the national language of Bhutan in 1971. [4] Dzongkha study is mandatory in schools, and the majority of the population speaks it as a second ...
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] The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Sinitic languages.
An incomplete list of machine translation software or applications that can translate Tibetan language from/to a variety of other languages. 藏译通 – Zangyitong, a mobile app for translating between Tibetan and Chinese. [43] 青海弥陀翻译 – A Beta-version WeChat Mini Program that translate between Tibetan language to/from Chinese ...
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
In a recent interview with Elle Mexico, April cover star Camila Cabello spoke on how connecting to her culture through language helps bring her back to the lighthearted moments of her youth. "When ...
In 2007, Burmese was spoken by 33 million people as a first language. [5] Burmese is spoken as a second language by another 10 million people, particularly ethnic minorities in Burma and those in neighbouring countries. [6] Burmese is a Sino-Tibetan language belonging to the Southern Burmish branch of the Tibeto-Burman languages.