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Tibetan script
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The Tibetan script is a segmental writing system, or abugida, derived from of Brahmic scripts and Gupta script, and used to write certain Tibetic languages, including Tibetan, Dzongkha, Sikkimese, Ladakhi, Jirel and Balti. It was originally developed c.620 by Tibetan minister Thonmi Sambhota for King Songsten Gampo.[5][6]
Tibetan བོད་ཡིག་ | |
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Script type | |
Time period | c. 620–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 tibetan script has also been used for some non-Tibetic languages in close cultural contact with Tibet, such as Thakali[7] 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.
The script is closely linked to a broad ethnic Tibetan identity, spanning across areas in India, Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet.[8] The Tibetan script is of Brahmic origin from the Gupta script and is ancestral to scripts such as Lepcha,[9] Marchen and the multilingual ʼPhags-pa script,[9] and is also closely related to Meitei.[3]