Tibetan

བོད་ཡིག

Tibetan is a language, spoken in China, Nepal and India. Wikidata counts 1.2 m first-language speakers (1990). Wikidata describes it as “Tibeto-Burman language”.

2 · ProvincialTibt 1.2 m

Wikidata record Glottolog

At a glance

ISO 639-3: bod
ISO 639-1: bo
Glottocode: tibe1272
Family: unclassified
EGIDS: 2 Provincial
Centre point: 29.00, 86.00
Wikipedia: 123 language editions

1.2 mfirst-language speakers

—second-language speakers

3countries

2scripts

—levels in the tree

2EGIDS level

Facts

Name	Tibetan · བོད་ཡིག
Also called	Standard Tibetan, Lhasa Tibetan, Tibetan language
L1 speakers	1,200,000 (1990)
Written in	Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille

Vitality

EGIDS 2 Provincial2

Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.

Other languages at this level

where it is spoken

Map and countries

A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.

Map of the area where Tibetan is spoken — Map: Nyilvoskt · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

China247 languages in the index Nepal104 languages in the index India395 languages in the index

Also spoken in China

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