Tibetan

Tibetan () refers to the Tibetan script used by Tibetans. Tibetan language belongs to the Tibetan branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is mainly applicable to Tibetans in China, as well as some people in Nepal, Bhutan, India and Pakistan. Tibetan is a phonetic script with vowels appended to it. [1] There are two theories about the origin of Tibetan. Some scholars believe that it was created in the 7th century AD during the Tubo era when King Songtsen Gampo sent the Tibetan linguist Tunmi Sambuza to North India to study Sanskrit and quoted the Sanskrit alphabet after returning home. Yongzhong Benjiao believes that Tibetan script evolved from Xiangxiong script.

According to records: Tubo Zampu Songtsen Gampo sent minister Tumisangbuza and other 16 people to Tianzhu (India) to study and become disciples. After returning to Tibet, he imitated Sanskrit "Lanza style" and combined it with Tibetan rhymes to create Tibetan regular script fonts. He also created Tibetan cursive script based on "Urdu style". But this traditional view has been questioned by many scholars. They believe that the person who created Tibetan language was not Tumisangbuza, who has been praised repeatedly by people, but that there may have been ancient writing before Tibet (the era of Songtsen Gampo), which was used to record primitive religious classics. Some scholars even tend to believe that "Tibetan was created based on Zhang Xiongwen [2]".

Tibetan letters can be translated into Sanskrit letters one by one. Those who believe that Tibetan was adapted from Sanskrit believe that this transformation relationship is the reason why it is "able to be transcribed one by one"; while those who believe that Tibetan evolved from Shang-shung script believe that this ability is because Tibetans can recite Buddhist mantras without loss. Instead, add customized ones. However, even if the Tibetan alphabet can transcribe the Sanskrit alphabet one by one, Tibetan and Sanskrit are still two completely different languages. Although Tibetan can reproduce the pronunciation of Sanskrit without loss, it still has no way of understanding its meaning. , or can only rely on translation. In addition, among the languages ??of the Sino-Tibetan language family and among the scripts of various ethnic groups in China, Tibetan is second only to Chinese in terms of its length of history and richness of documents.

Chinese name

Tibetan

Ethnicity

Tibetan

Language

Chinese Tibetan branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family

Applicable areas

Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, India

Origin

Sanskrit

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Tibetan concept

Tibetan refers to the Tibetan language used by Tibetans. Tibetan language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language group of the Sino-Tibetan language family. In addition to Tibetans in China, Tibetan is also spoken by some people in Nepal, Bhutan, and India. Tibetan language is mainly divided into three major dialect areas: Weizang, Kham and Amdo. Although there are different dialects and different pronunciations, the Tibetan language is still unified, and the written language is commonly used throughout the Tibetan area.

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