Language code: bo

Technical information about ISO 639 language code bo

The table below provides technical details for the Tibetan language, designated by the bo code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

bo

Name

Official

Tibetan

Native

བོད་ཡིག

Family
Tibeto-Burman
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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Tibetan (also known as Lhasa Tibetan or Standard Tibetan) belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, more specifically to the Tibeto-Burman subgroup. It is a co-official language in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region, China, where Mandarin Chinese is also official. It is written using the Tibetan script. It is estimated that there are more than 1.2 million speakers of Tibetan worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

1.2M

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Tibetan speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

bo-CN Tibetan (China)

bo-IN Tibetan (India)

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