Old Tibetan | |
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Region | Tibet |
Era | 7th–11th centuries, after which it became Classical Tibetan |
Tibetan script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | otb |
otb | |
Glottolog | None |
Old Tibetan refers to the period of Tibetan language reflected in documents from the adoption of writing by the Tibetan Empire in the mid-7th century to works of the early 11th century.
In 816 CE, during the reign of Sadnalegs, literary Tibetan underwent a thorough reform aimed at standardizing the language and vocabulary of the translations being made from Indian texts, and this resulted in what we now call Classical Tibetan.[1]