Social:Central Tibetan

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Short description: Most spoken and standard of the Tibetic languages
Central Tibetan
Ü-Tsang
དབུས་སྐད་, Dbus skad / Ükä
དབུས་གཙང་སྐད་, Dbus-gtsang skad / Ü-tsang kä
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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)e26
Sino-Tibetan
  • Tibeto-Burman
    • Tibeto-Kanauri (?)
Standard forms
Lasetian
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[1]
sout3216  South-Western Tibetic (partial match)[2]
basu1243  Basum[3]
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Shingsaba is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

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

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.

Languages or dialects

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]

Consonants

IPA 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] ཀྱ་ gy gy
[cʰ] ཁྱ་ གྱ་ ky ky
[tʂ] ཀྲ་ kr zh
[tʂʰ] ཁྲ་ གྲ་ khr, gr ch
[ʂ] ཧྲ་ hr sh
[ɬ] ལྷ་ lh lh
  • འ isn't commonly transliterated to Roman, in the Wade–Giles system ' is used.

Vowels

ཨ（◌）

ཨ། ཨའུ། ཨག།
ཨགས། 		ཨང༌།
ཨངས།		 ཨབ།
ཨབས།		 ཨམ།
ཨམས།		 ཨར། ཨལ།
ཨའི།		 ཨད།
ཨས།		 ཨན།
a au ag aŋ 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 iŋ ib im ir i in
ཨུ། ཨུག།
ཨུགས། 		ཨུང༌།
ཨུངས།		 ཨུབ།
ཨུབས།		 ཨུམ།
ཨུམས།		 ཨུར། ཨུལ།
ཨུའི།[VOW 1]		 ཨུད།
ཨུས།		 ཨུན།
u ug uŋ 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 oŋ ob om or oi/ö oi/ö oin/ön
  1. ↑ 特殊

Pronunciation

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

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

Last consonant

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

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Tibetan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/tibe1272. 
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "South-Western Tibetic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/sout3216. 
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Basum". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/basu1243. 
  4. ↑ N. Tournadre (2005) "L'aire linguistique tibétaine et ses divers dialectes." Lalies, 2005, n°25, p. 7–56 [1]
  5. ↑ "China". 2016. http://www.ethnologue.com/country/CN/languages. 
  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.




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