ABOUT ME AND MY LANGUAGE
| Tibetan Lhasa Dialect |
ABOUT ME AND MY LANGUAGE
| Your first name | Diki |
| Your last name | Dopta |
| Preferred name(s) of your language | Tibetan |
| Alternative names | Bodgye |
| Language classification | Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Himalayish, Tibeto-Kanauri, Tibetic, Tibetan, Central |
| Geographic areas where spoken | Tibet Autonomous Region of China, Qinghai Province, Sichuan Province, Yunnan Province,Gansu Province, India, Nepal, Bhutan. |
| Approximate number of monolingual speakers | Almost 2 million. |
| Approximate number of fluent speakers | 100,000 |
| Other languages spoken in area/country | Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Sichuan Dialect, Chinese Qinghai Dialect, English, Hindi, Nepalese |
| Do the representatives of neighboring ethnic groups learn to speak your language? | Yes. |
| If you answered yes to the above question, please specify | Tu ethnic in Qinghai province, some Mongolians in Qinghai province speak Tibetan. |
| Does you language have a widely accepted writing system? | Yes. |
| If you answered yes, what materials are written? | Religious text, Epic poetry, novel, poetry, school textbook, dictionary, webpage, journal, newspaper. |
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