Tibetan People - Language

Language

Tibetan people
Chinese 藏族
Transcriptions
Hakka
- Romanization Tshông-tshu̍k
Min
- Hokkien POJ Chōng-cho̍k
- Min-dong BUC Câung-cŭk
- Teochew Peng'im Tsăng-tsôk
Wu
- Romanization zaon zoh

The Tibetan language encompasses many dialects. Khampas have several Khams language dialects which may be unintelligible to Amdowas, and the Lhasa dialect may be unintelligible to both of those groups.

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