Tibetan, spoken by about 1.2 million people, is used primarily in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Belonging to the Sino-Tibetan family, it uses the Tibetan script, an abugida. With agglutinative grammar, six cases, and SOV word order, Tibetan is deeply tied to Buddhist rituals, scriptures, and cultural identity, playing a crucial role in spiritual and scholarly traditions. (Standard/Lhasa Tibetan was used as our grammatical reference).
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Language Family: Sino-Tibetan
Writing System: Tibetan
Writing System Type: Abugida
Writing Direction: L to R
Tones / Pitch Accent: 2
Morphology: Agglutinative
Cases: 6
Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: None
Number of Verb Tenses: 4
Word Order: SOV
Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 8
Number of Consonants: 29
Areas Where Spoken
China (0.09%) (~1.2 million)
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