What is Tibetan language?
{{Infobox language |name=Standard Tibetan |nativename={{lang|bo|ལྷ་སའི་སྐད་}}<br />''lha-sa'i skad'' |states= [[China]] |region = |speakers=1.3 million<!--There are not 5-10m native speakers of *Standard* Tibetan--> |date=1990 census |speakers2=ca. 5 million of broader Tibetan |script=[[Tibetan alphabet]]<br>[[Tibetan Braille]] |familycolor=Sino-Tibetan |fam2=([[Tibeto-Burman languages|Tibeto-Burman]]) |fam3=[[Tibeto-Kanauri languages|Tibeto-Kanauri]] |fam4=[[Bodish languages|Bodish]] |fam5=[[Tibetic languages|Tibetic]] |fam6=[[Central Tibetan language|Central Tibetan]] |ancestor=[[Old Tibetan]] |ancestor2=[[Classical Tibetan]] |nation={{CHN|China}} * [[Tibet Autonomous Region]] |agency=Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language<ref>Tibetan: {{lang|bo|བོད་ཡིག་བརྡ་ཚད་ལྡན་དུ་སྒྱུར་བའི་ལ ས་དོན་ཨུ་ཡོན་ལྷན་ཁང་གིས་བསྒྲིགས}}<br>Chinese: 藏语术语标准化工作委员会</ref> |iso1=bo |iso2b=tib |iso2t=bod |iso3=bod }} The '''Tibetan language''' or '''Standard Tibetan''' is a [[language|Tibetic language]] spoken in [[Tibet]], a region of [[China]]. It is one of the many [[Han–Tibetan languages]]. It has been spoken for many [[century|centuries]] (since at least the 6th century, possibly earlier). [[File:Tibetan language distributon.jpg|thumb|Tibetian speaking world]] Tibetan has many dialects and Standard Tibetan is one of them. People who speak different dialects often cannot easily communicate with each other orally. The [[Tibetan alphabet|Tibetan written language]] is not known by most Tibetans and is not taught in many Tibetan areas. ==References== {{reflist}} {{InterWiki|code=bo}} {{Languages of China}} {{authority control}} {{Asia-stub}} [[Category:Sino-Tibetan languages]]