藏语(Tibetan language)
超过五百万人使用汉藏诸语言，他们分布在中国的西藏，青海省、四川省和甘肃省；不丹（Bhutan）；尼泊尔（Nepal）北部；印度和巴基斯坦的查谟（Jammu）和喀什米尔（Kashmir）。自从中国於1959年占领西藏，在印度的飞地里讲说西藏语的人散布至印度和世界其他各地。西藏语包含非常纷歧的方言，依惯例分为以下几个语族：西西藏语：包括在查谟（Jammu）和喀什米尔（Kashmir）的巴拉提（Balti）和拉搭奇（Ladakhi）;中西藏语：包括拉萨的口音以及大部分的尼泊尔方言（包含雪巴（Sherpa））；南西藏语：包括锡金（Sikkim）和不丹（Bhutan）的方言；康区（Khams）或东南西藏语，包括内陆高原、青海南部、西藏东部和西川西部的方言；安多（Amdo）或东北西藏语，包括青海北部、甘肃南部和四川北部的方言。大部分西藏人共同使用一套共有、笔划特殊的书面语文。这套文字的笔划颇为独特，其起源尚有争议，但可证实最早於西元8世纪已经出现。
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Tibetan language
Sino-Tibetan language spoken by more than 5 million people in Tibet (Xizang), Qinghai, Sichuan, and Gansu provinces in China; Bhutan; northern Nepal; and Jammu and Kashmir in India and Pakistan. Since the occupation of Tibet by China in 1959, enclaves of Tibetan-speakers have dispersed to India and other parts of the world. Spoken Tibetan comprises a very diverse range of dialects, conventionally divided into several groups: Western, including Balti and Ladakhi in Jammu and Kashmir; Central, including the speech of Lhasa and most of the Nepalese dialects (including Sherpa); Southern, including the dialects of Sikkim and Bhutan; Khams, or Southeastern, including the dialects of the interior plateau, southern Qinghai, eastern Tibet, and parts of western Sichuan; Amdo or Northeastern, including the dialects of northern Qinghai, southern Gansu, and northern Sichuan. Most Tibetans share a common literary language, written in a distinctive script of disputed origin first attested in the 8th century AD.