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TIBETAN |
Family: Sino-Tibetan |
Subgroup: Tibeto-Burman |
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Tintin
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Milou
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Capitaine
Haddock
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Tryphon
Tournesol
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Dupont
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Dupond
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Tibetan is spoken by
about 1½ million people in what was formerly Tibet, now the
Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Another 3 million speakers live
in the Chinese provinces of Szechwan, Tsinghai, and Kansu.
Additionally about one million people in Nepal speak Tibetan as a
second language.
Of the major
languages of Asia, Tibetan has the most in common with Burmese.
The two languages belong to the same branch of the Sino-Tibetan
family. The Tibetan alphabet dates from the 7th century A.D. It
is based on the Sanskrit, having been adapted by a Tibetan
minister sent to study Sanskrit in Kashmir.
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