Uchen script
Uchen (Tibetan: དབུ་ཅན་, Wylie: dbu-can; IPA: [utɕɛ̃]; variant spellings include ucen, u-cen, u-chen, ucan, u-can, uchan, u-chan, and ucän) is the upright, block style of the Tibetan script. The name means "with a head", and is the style of the script used for printing and for formal manuscripts.
| Uchen script | |
|---|---|
| Script type | Heavy-line Script Alphabet Semisyllabary
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| Creator | Thonmi Sambhota |
| Created | 7th century-8th century |
| Languages | Tibetan, Dzongkha |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Brahmi script
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Child systems | Umê script |
It is used to write both the Tibetan language and Dzongkha, the official language of Bhutan.
There are also a number of cursive forms of the Tibetan script, sometimes collectively referred to as umê (Tibetan: དབུ་མེད་, Wylie: dbu-med), "headless."
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