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 to | India, Nepal, China (Tibet Autonomous Region) |
| Region | Tibet Autonomous Region |
Native speakers | (1.2 million cited 1990–2014)[1] |
Standard forms |
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| Tibetan script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:bod – Lhasa Tibetandre – Dolpohut – Humla, Limilhm – Lhomi (Shing Saapa)muk – Mugom (Mugu)kte – Nubriola – Walungge (Gola)loy – Lowa/Loke (Mustang)tcn – Tichurong |
| Glottolog | tibe1272 Tibetansout3216 South-Western Tibetic (partial match)basu1243 Basum |
| ELP | Walungge |
| 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, Shigatse, Gar, Sherpa, Basum, Gertse, and Nagqu varieties.[6]
Ngari Tibetan
editNgari 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
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- འ isn't commonly transliterated to Roman, in the Wade–Giles system ' is used.
Vowels
editཨ（◌）
| 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 |
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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
editReferences
edit- ^ 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)
- ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Dolpo.
- ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Lhomi.
- ^ N. Tournadre (2005) "L'aire linguistique tibétaine 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).
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