Language code: bo
Technical information about ISO 639 language code bo
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The table below provides technical details for the Tibetan language, designated by the bo code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Tibetan Native བོད་ཡིག |
| Family | Tibeto-Burman |
| Scripts | |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Central (Ü-Tsang)KhamAmdo |
| Related languages | DzongkhaLadakhiBaltiSikkimeseSherpa |
| Key facts | The Tibetan script has remained recognisably stable since the 7th-century royal standardisationCentral and Kham dialects are tonal, while Amdo lacks tone entirelyClassical Tibetan long functioned as a written lingua franca across the Himalayas and parts of Inner AsiaGrammar shows ergative alignment in past-tense clausesRich honorific and polite vocabulary layers signal social status and respect. |
| Sample phrase | བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། ཁྱེད་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། |
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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.
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- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
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- Project branching
- Professional translation services
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- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ