Khams Tibetan
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Khams Tibetan (Tibetan: ཁམས་སྐད, Wylie: Khams skad, THL: Khamké) is the Tibetic language used by the majority of the people in Kham. Khams is one of the three branches of the traditional classification of Tibetic languages (the other two being Amdo Tibetan and Ü-Tsang).[2] In terms of mutual intelligibility, Khams could communicate at a basic level with the Ü-Tsang branch (including Lhasa Tibetan).[2]
Khams Tibetan | |
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Khams skad, Khamké | |
ཁམས་སྐད | |
Region | Khams (Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan in China) Bhutan |
Native speakers | 2 million (2022)[1] |
Tibetan script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:khg – Khamskbg – Khambatsk – Tseku |
Glottolog | kham1299 |
ELP | Khamba |
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Both Khams Tibetan and Lhasa Tibetan evolve to not preserve the word-initial consonant clusters,[3] which makes them very far from Classical Tibetan, especially when compared to the more conservative Amdo Tibetan.[4][5] Also, Kham and Lhasa Tibetan evolved to be tonal, which Classical Tibetan was not.[3] Khams Tibetan has 80% lexical similarity with Central Tibetan.[6]