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Central Tibetan

Central Tibetan, also known as Dbus, Ü or Ü-Tsang, is the most widely spoken Tibetic language and the basis of Standard Tibetan.

Central Tibetan
Ü-Tsang
དབུས་སྐད་, Dbus skad / Ükä
དབུས་གཙང་སྐད་, Dbus-gtsang skad / Ü-tsang kä
The name of the language written in the Tibetan script
Pronunciation[wýkɛʔ, wýʔtsáŋ kɛʔ]
Native toIndia, Nepal, China (Tibet Autonomous Region)
RegionTibet Autonomous Region
Native speakers
(1.2 million cited 1990–2014)[1]
Standard forms
Tibetan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
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
Glottologtibe1272  Tibetan
sout3216  South-Western Tibetic (partial match)
basu1243  Basum
ELPWalungge
 Dolpo[2]
 Lhomi[3]
Shingsaba is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

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.

Varieties edit

Dbus and Gtsang

There are many mutually intelligible Central Tibetan languages besides that of Lhasa, with particular diversity along the border and in Nepal:

Limi (Limirong), Mugum, Dolpo (Dolkha), Mustang (Lowa, Lokä), Humla, Nubri, Lhomi, Dhrogpai Gola, Walungchung Gola (Walungge/Halungge), Tseku
Basum (most divergent, possibly a separate language)

Ethnologue reports that Walungge is highly intelligible with Thudam.

Glottolog reports these South-Western Tibetic languages as forming a separate subgroup of languages within Central Tibetan languages, but that Thudam is not a distinct variety. On the opposite, Glottolog does not classify Basum within Central Tibetan but leaves it unclassified within Tibetic languages.

Tournadre (2013) classifies Tseku with Khams.[4]

Central Tibetan has 70% lexical similarity with Amdo Tibetan and 80% lexical similarity with Khams Tibetan.[5]

Qu & Jing (2017), a comparative survey of Central Tibetan lects, documents the Lhasa 拉萨, Shigatse 日喀则, Gar 噶尔, Sherpa 夏尔巴, Basum 巴松, Gertse 改则, and Nagqu 那曲 varieties.[6]

Ngari Tibetan edit

Ngari Tibetan, more specifically Stöd Ngari (as opposed to the language of pre-1842 Lower Ngari that is now an independent language), is the endonym for a topolect spoken around Ngari Prefecture, T.A.R. Traditionally, it's considered a divergent variety of Dbusgtsang but not Dbusgtsang proper, however, some Western Khams Tibetan varieties such as Gêrzê Tibetan and Nagqu Tibetan are now considered part of the Ngari Tibetan areal group as well.[7] In Indian-administrated Tibet since the 1846 British invasion of Spiti, a related topolect is now known under exonym "Lahuli and Spiti".

Consonants edit

IPA Tibetan writing Wade–Giles Tibetan Pinyin
[k] ཀ་ k g
[] ཁ་ ག་ kh, g k
[ŋ] ང་ ng ng
[] ཅ་ c j
[tɕʰ] ཆ་ ཇ་ ch, j q
[ɲ] ཉ་ ny ny
[t] ཏ་ t d
[] ཐ་ ད་ th, d t
[n] ན་ n n
[p] པ་ p b
[] ཕ་ བ་ ph, b p
[m] མ་ m m
[ts] ཙ་ ts z
[tsʰ] ཚ་ ཛ་ tsh, dz c
[w] ཝ་ w w
IPA Tibetan writing Wade–Giles Tibetan Pinyin
[ɕ] ཞ་ ཤ་ zh, sh x
[s] ཟ་ ས་ z, s s
[j] ཡ་ y y
[ɹ] ར་ r r
[l] ལ་ l l
[h] ཧ་ h h
[c] ཀྱ་ gy gy
[] ཁྱ་ གྱ་ ky ky
[] ཀྲ་ kr zh
[tʂʰ] ཁྲ་ གྲ་ khr, gr ch
[ʂ] ཧྲ་ hr sh
[ɬ] ལྷ་ lh lh
  • isn't commonly transliterated to Roman, in the Wade–Giles system ' is used.

Vowels edit

ཨ(◌)

ཨ། ཨའུ། ཨག།
ཨགས།
ཨང༌།
ཨངས།
ཨབ།
ཨབས།
ཨམ།
ཨམས།
ཨར། ཨལ།
ཨའི།
ཨད།
ཨས།
ཨན།
a au ag ab am ar ai/ä ai/ä ain/än
ཨི།
ཨིལ།
ཨའི།
ཨིའུ།
ཨེའུ།
ཨིག།
ཨིགས།
ཨིང༌།
ཨིངས།
ཨིབ།
ཨིབས།
ཨིམ།
ཨིམས།
ཨིར། ཨིད།
ཨིས།
ཨིན།
i iu ig ib im ir i in
ཨུ། ཨུག།
ཨུགས།
ཨུང༌།
ཨུངས།
ཨུབ།
ཨུབས།
ཨུམ།
ཨུམས།
ཨུར། ཨུལ།
ཨུའི།[VOW 1]
ཨུད།
ཨུས།
ཨུན།
u ug ub um ur ü ü ün
ཨེ།
ཨེལ།
ཨེའི།
ཨེག།
ཨེགས།
ཨེང༌།
ཨེངས།
ཨེབ།
ཨེབས།
ཨེམ།
ཨེམས།
ཨེར། ཨེད།
ཨེས།
ཨེན།
ê êg êŋ êb êm êr ê ên
ཨོ། ཨོག།
ཨོགས།
ཨོང༌།
ཨོངས།
ཨོབ།
ཨོབས།
ཨོམ།
ཨོམས།
ཨོར། ཨོལ།
ཨོའི།
ཨོད།
ཨོས།
ཨོན།
o og ob om or oi/ö oi/ö oin/ön
  1. ^ 特殊

Pronunciation edit

IPA Wade–Giles Tibetan Pinyin IPA Wade–Giles Tibetan Pinyin
[a] a a
[ɛ] al, a'i ai/ä [ɛ̃] an ain/än
[i] i, il, i'i i [ĩ] in in
[u] u u
[y] ul, u'i ü [ỹ] un ün
[e] e, el, e'i ê [ẽ] en ên
[o] o o
[ø] ol, o'i oi/ö [ø̃] on oin/ön

一"ai, ain, oi, oin" is also written to "ä, än, ö, ön".

Conjunct vowels edit

IPA Wade–Giles Tibetan Pinyin
[au] a'u au
[iu] i'u, e'u iu

Last consonant edit

IPA Wade–Giles Tibetan Pinyin
[ʔ] d, s none
[n] n
[k/ʔ] g, gs g
[ŋ] ng, ngs ng
[p] b, bs b
[m] m, ms m
[r] r r

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Lhasa Tibetan at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)  
    Dolpo at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)  
    Humla, Limi at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)  
    Lhomi (Shing Saapa) at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)  
    Mugom (Mugu) at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)  
    Nubri at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)  
  2. ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Dolpo.
  3. ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Lhomi.
  4. ^ N. Tournadre (2005) "L'aire linguistique tibétaine et ses divers dialectes." Lalies, 2005, n°25, p. 7–56 [1]
  5. ^ . Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Nineteenth Edition. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-09-09.
  6. ^ Qu, Aitang 瞿霭堂; Jing, Song 劲松. 2017. Zangyu Weizang fangyan yanjiu 藏语卫藏方言研究. Beijing: Zhongguo Zangxue chubanshe 中国藏学出版社. ISBN 9787802534230.
  7. ^ 江荻. "西藏的语言多样性及其分类". 中国藏学 (Jun 2022).


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Central Tibetan also known as Dbus U or U Tsang is the most widely spoken Tibetic language and the basis of Standard Tibetan Central TibetanU Tsangདབ ས ས ད Dbus skad Uka དབ ས གཙང ས ད Dbus gtsang skad U tsang kaThe name of the language written in the Tibetan scriptPronunciation wykɛʔ wyʔtsaŋ kɛʔ Native toIndia Nepal China Tibet Autonomous Region RegionTibet Autonomous RegionNative speakers 1 2 million cited 1990 2014 1 Language familySino Tibetan Tibeto BurmanTibeto Kanauri BodishTibeticCentral TibetanStandard formsLasetian Standard TibetanWriting systemTibetan scriptLanguage codesISO 639 3Variously a href https iso639 3 sil org code bod class extiw title iso639 3 bod bod a Lhasa Tibetan a href https iso639 3 sil org code dre class extiw title iso639 3 dre dre a Dolpo a href https iso639 3 sil org code hut class extiw title iso639 3 hut hut a Humla Limi a href https iso639 3 sil org code lhm class extiw title iso639 3 lhm lhm a Lhomi Shing Saapa a href https iso639 3 sil org code muk class extiw title iso639 3 muk muk a Mugom Mugu a href https iso639 3 sil org code kte class extiw title iso639 3 kte kte a Nubri a href https iso639 3 sil org code ola class extiw title iso639 3 ola ola a Walungge Gola a href https iso639 3 sil org code loy class extiw title iso639 3 loy loy a Lowa Loke Mustang a href https iso639 3 sil org code tcn class extiw title iso639 3 tcn tcn a TichurongGlottologtibe1272 Tibetansout3216 South Western Tibetic partial match basu1243 BasumELPWalungge Dolpo 2 Lhomi 3 Shingsaba is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World s Languages in Danger Dbus and U are forms of the same name Dbus is a transliteration of the name in Tibetan script དབ ས whereas U 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 U All of these names are frequently applied specifically to the prestige dialect of Lhasa Contents 1 Varieties 1 1 Ngari Tibetan 2 Consonants 3 Vowels 3 1 Pronunciation 3 1 1 Conjunct vowels 3 2 Last consonant 4 See also 5 ReferencesVarieties editDbus and Gtsang There are many mutually intelligible Central Tibetan languages besides that of Lhasa with particular diversity along the border and in Nepal Limi Limirong Mugum Dolpo Dolkha Mustang Lowa Loka Humla Nubri Lhomi Dhrogpai Gola Walungchung Gola Walungge Halungge Tseku Basum most divergent possibly a separate language Ethnologue reports that Walungge is highly intelligible with Thudam Glottolog reports these South Western Tibetic languages as forming a separate subgroup of languages within Central Tibetan languages but that Thudam is not a distinct variety On the opposite Glottolog does not classify Basum within Central Tibetan but leaves it unclassified within Tibetic languages Tournadre 2013 classifies Tseku with Khams 4 Central Tibetan has 70 lexical similarity with Amdo Tibetan and 80 lexical similarity with Khams Tibetan 5 Qu amp Jing 2017 a comparative survey of Central Tibetan lects documents the Lhasa 拉萨 Shigatse 日喀则 Gar 噶尔 Sherpa 夏尔巴 Basum 巴松 Gertse 改则 and Nagqu 那曲 varieties 6 Ngari Tibetan edit Ngari Tibetan more specifically Stod Ngari as opposed to the language of pre 1842 Lower Ngari that is now an independent language is the endonym for a topolect spoken around Ngari Prefecture T A R Traditionally it s considered a divergent variety of Dbusgtsang but not Dbusgtsang proper however some Western Khams Tibetan varieties such as Gerze Tibetan and Nagqu Tibetan are now considered part of the Ngari Tibetan areal group as well 7 In Indian administrated Tibet since the 1846 British invasion of Spiti a related topolect is now known under exonym Lahuli and Spiti Consonants editIPA Tibetan writing Wade Giles Tibetan Pinyin k ཀ k g kʰ ཁ ག kh g k ŋ ང ng ng tɕ ཅ c j tɕʰ ཆ ཇ ch j q ɲ ཉ ny ny t ཏ t d tʰ ཐ ད th d t n ན n n p པ p b pʰ ཕ བ ph b p m མ m m ts ཙ ts z tsʰ ཚ ཛ tsh dz c w ཝ w w IPA Tibetan writing Wade Giles Tibetan Pinyin ɕ ཞ ཤ zh sh x s ཟ ས z s s j ཡ y y ɹ ར r r l ལ l l h ཧ h h c ཀ gy gy cʰ ཁ ག ky ky tʂ ཀ kr zh tʂʰ ཁ ག khr gr ch ʂ ཧ hr sh ɬ ལ lh lh འ isn t commonly transliterated to Roman in the Wade Giles system is used Vowels editཨ ཨ ཨའ ཨག ཨགས ཨང ཨངས ཨབ ཨབས ཨམ ཨམས ཨར ཨལ ཨའ ཨད ཨས ཨན a au ag aŋ ab am ar ai a ai a ain an ཨ ཨ ལ ཨའ ཨ འ ཨ འ ཨ ག ཨ གས ཨ ང ཨ ངས ཨ བ ཨ བས ཨ མ ཨ མས ཨ ར ཨ ད ཨ ས ཨ ན i iu ig iŋ ib im ir i in ཨ ཨ ག ཨ གས ཨ ང ཨ ངས ཨ བ ཨ བས ཨ མ ཨ མས ཨ ར ཨ ལ ཨ འ VOW 1 ཨ ད ཨ ས ཨ ན u ug uŋ ub um ur u u un ཨ ཨ ལ ཨ འ ཨ ག ཨ གས ཨ ང ཨ ངས ཨ བ ཨ བས ཨ མ ཨ མས ཨ ར ཨ ད ཨ ས ཨ ན e eg eŋ eb em er e en ཨ ཨ ག ཨ གས ཨ ང ཨ ངས ཨ བ ཨ བས ཨ མ ཨ མས ཨ ར ཨ ལ ཨ འ ཨ ད ཨ ས ཨ ན o og oŋ ob om or oi o oi o oin on 特殊 Pronunciation edit IPA Wade Giles Tibetan Pinyin IPA Wade Giles Tibetan Pinyin a a a ɛ al a i ai a ɛ an ain an i i il i i i ĩ in in u u u y ul u i u ỹ un un e e el e i e ẽ en en o o o o ol o i oi o o on oin on 一 ai ain oi oin is also written to a an o on Conjunct vowels edit IPA Wade Giles Tibetan Pinyin au a u au iu i u e u iu Last consonant edit IPA Wade Giles Tibetan Pinyin ʔ d s none n n k ʔ g gs g ŋ ng ngs ng p b bs b m m ms m r r rSee also editLhasa Tibetan Amdo Tibetan Ladakhi language Balti language U TsangReferences edit Lhasa Tibetan at Ethnologue 26th ed 2023 nbsp Dolpo at Ethnologue 26th ed 2023 nbsp Humla Limi at Ethnologue 26th ed 2023 nbsp Lhomi Shing Saapa at Ethnologue 26th ed 2023 nbsp Mugom Mugu at Ethnologue 26th ed 2023 nbsp Nubri at Ethnologue 26th ed 2023 nbsp Endangered Languages Project data for Dolpo Endangered Languages Project data for Lhomi N Tournadre 2005 L aire linguistique tibetaine et ses divers dialectes Lalies 2005 n 25 p 7 56 1 China Ethnologue Languages of the World Nineteenth Edition 2016 Archived from the original on 2016 09 09 Qu Aitang 瞿霭堂 Jing Song 劲松 2017 Zangyu Weizang fangyan yanjiu 藏语卫藏方言研究 Beijing Zhongguo Zangxue chubanshe 中国藏学出版社 ISBN 9787802534230 江荻 西藏的语言多样性及其分类 中国藏学 Jun 2022 nbsp Central Tibetan edition of Wikipedia the free encyclopedia nbsp This Sino Tibetan languages related article is a 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