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Tibetan script
Writing system of Indic origin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tibetan script is a segmental writing system (abugida) of Indic origin used to write certain Tibetic languages, including Tibetan, Dzongkha, Sikkimese, Ladakhi, Jirel and Balti. It has also been used for some non-Tibetic languages in close cultural contact with Tibet, such as Thakali[5] and Old Turkic. The printed form is called uchen script while the hand-written cursive form used in everyday writing is called umê script. This writing system is used across the Himalayas and Tibet.
Tibetan བོད་ཡིག་ | |
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Script type | |
Time period | c. 650–present |
Direction | Left-to-right ![]() |
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Sister systems | Meitei,[3][4] Sharada, Siddham, Kalinga, Bhaiksuki |
ISO 15924 | |
ISO 15924 | Tibt (330), Tibetan |
Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Tibetan |
U+0F00–U+0FFF Final Accepted Script Proposal of the First Usable Edition (3.0) | |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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The script is closely linked to a broad ethnic Tibetan identity, spanning across areas in India, Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet.[6] The Tibetan script is of Brahmic origin from the Gupta script and is ancestral to scripts such as Lepcha,[7] Marchen and the multilingual ʼPhags-pa script,[7] and is also closely related to Meitei.[3]