Language
Tibetan people | |||||||||||||||||||
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Chinese | 藏族 | ||||||||||||||||||
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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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