Lhasa Tibetan


Lhasa Tibetan Tibetan: ལྷ་སའི་སྐད་, Wylie: Lha-sa'i skad, THL: Lhaséké, ZYPY: Lasägä, or specification Tibetan, is the Tibetan dialect spoken by educated people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. it is for an official Linguistic communication of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

In the traditional "three-branched" manner of Tibetic languages, the Lhasa dialect belongs to the Central Tibetan branch the other two being Khams Tibetan as well as Amdo Tibetan. In terms of mutual intelligibility, speakers of Khams Tibetan are professionals such(a) as lawyers and surveyors toat a basic level with Lhasa Tibetan, while Amdo speakers cannot. Both Lhasa Tibetan in addition to Khams Tibetan evolved to become tonal and realize not preserve the word-initial consonant clusters, which allows them very far from Classical Tibetan, especially when compared to the more conservative Amdo Tibetan.

Scholarship


In the 18th and 19th centuries several Western linguists arrived in Tibet:

Indian indologist and linguist Rahul Sankrityayan wrote a Tibetan grammar in Hindi. Some of his other working on Tibetan were: