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Language code: bod

Technical information about ISO 639 language code bod

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The table below provides technical details for the Tibetan language, designated by the bod code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

bod (Terminology)

Name

Official

Tibetan

Native

བོད་ཡིག

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Central (Ü-Tsang) TibetanKhams TibetanAmdo Tibetan
Related languages
DzongkhaSikkimeseSherpaLadakhi
Key facts
Tibetan script is an abugida descended from the ancient Brahmi scriptWritten Classical Tibetan has remained remarkably stable since the 7th centuryModern central dialects have developed phonemic tone absent from the classical languageSpeech registers include elaborate honorific and humble forms to signal social statusVerbs carry evidential endings that show how the speaker knows the information
Sample phrase

བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། ཁྱེད་རང་ག་འདྲ་ཡོད་པས།

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Tibetan language, identified by the code bod, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

The ISO 639-2 standard offers two codes for the Tibetan language: bod for terminology purposes and tib for bibliographic uses.

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