Lhasa Tibetan

Lhasa Tibetan
Lhasa Tibetan
བོད་སྐད་
Native to	Lhasa
Region	Tibet Autonomous Region, U-Tsang
Native speakers	(1.2 million cited 1990 census)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Tibeto-Kanauri (?) Bodish Tibetic Central Tibetan Lhasa Tibetan; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Old Tibetan Classical Tibetan ;
Writing system	Tibetan script; Tibetan Braille;
Official status
Official language in	China Tibet Autonomous Region;
Regulated by	Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Language codes
ISO 639-1	bo
ISO 639-2	tib (B) ; bod (T)
ISO 639-3	bod
Glottolog	tibe1272
Linguasphere	70-AAA-ac

Lhasa Tibetan (Tibetan: ལྷ་སའི་སྐད་, Wylie: Lha-sa'i skad, THL: Lhaséké, ZYPY: Lasägä), or Standard Tibetan, is the Tibetan dialect spoken by educated people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region. It is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

In the traditional "three-branched" classification of the Tibetic languages, the Lhasa dialect belongs to the Central Tibetan branch (the other two being Khams Tibetan and Amdo Tibetan). In terms of mutual intelligibility, speakers of Khams Tibetan are able to communicate at a basic level with Lhasa Tibetan, while Amdo speakers cannot. Both Lhasa Tibetan and Khams Tibetan evolved to become tonal and do not preserve the word-initial consonant clusters, which makes them very far from Classical Tibetan, especially when compared to the more conservative Amdo Tibetan.

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