Tibetan Language

Tibetan language may refer to:

  • Classical Tibetan, the written standard
  • Old Tibetan
  • Standard Tibetan, the most widely-used spoken dialect
  • Any of the Tibetic languages, particularly:
    • Central Tibetan language
    • Khams Tibetan language
    • Amdo Tibetan language

Famous quotes containing the word language:

    “This is of the loon—I do not mean its laugh, but its looning,—is a long-drawn call, as it were, sometimes singularly human to my ear,—hoo-hoo-ooooo, like the hallooing of a man on a very high key, having thrown his voice into his head. I have heard a sound exactly like it when breathing heavily through my own nostrils, half awake at ten at night, suggesting my affinity to the loon; as if its language were but a dialect of my own, after all.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)