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Language code: tib

Technical information about ISO 639 language code tib

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

Code

tib (Bibliographic)

Name

Official

Tibetan

Native

བོད་ཡིག

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Central (Ü-Tsang)KhamsAmdo
Related languages
DzongkhaSikkimeseSherpaLadakhiBalti
Key facts
Tibetan is written with an abugida script ultimately derived from BrahmiThe orthography preserves 7th-century phonology, so spelling and pronunciation often divergeCentral and Khams varieties are tonal, while Amdo is generally non-tonal and keeps original consonant clustersSentences follow a Subject–Object–Verb order with postpositions instead of prepositionsVerbal morphology relies on auxiliary particles rather than changes to the verb stem.
Sample phrase

བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། ཁྱེད་རང་བདེ་པོ་ཡོད་པས།

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Tibetan language, identified by the code tib, 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: tib for bibliographic purposes and bod for terminology uses.

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