Tibetan script

Tibetan
A text in Tibetan script suspected to be in Sanskrit. From the personal artifact collection of Donald Weir.
Script type	Abugida
Time period	c. 650–present
Direction	left-to-right
Languages	Tibetan Dzongkha Ladakhi Sikkimese Balti Sherpa Jirel Yolmo Tshangla Sanskrit
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Aramaic Brahmi Gupta[1][2] Tibetan
Child systems	Meitei Lepcha Khema Phagspa Marchen Tamyig
Sister systems	Sharada, Siddham, Kalinga, Bhaiksuki
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Tibt (330), ​Tibetan
Unicode
Unicode alias	Tibetan
Unicode range	U+0F00–U+0FFF Final Accepted Script Proposal of the First Usable Edition (3.0)
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The Tibetan script is a way of writing that is used for different Tibetic languages like Tibetan, Dzongkha, Sikkimese, Balti, Ladakhi, and Purgi. It's also been used for some languages not from Tibet but close to its culture, like Thakali, Sanskrit and Old Turkic. The printed form is called uchen script, and the cursive form used for everyday writing is called umê script. People use this writing system in the Himalayas and Tibet.^[3]

The script is closely connected to the Tibetan identity, which includes people from areas in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet. The Tibetan script comes from the Gupta script.^[4]

1. ↑ Daniels, P.T. (January 2008). "Writing systems of major and minor languages". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
2. ↑ Masica, Colin (1993). The Indo-Aryan languages. p. 143.
3. ↑ Laufer, Berthold (1918). "Origin of Tibetan Writing". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 38: 34–46. doi:10.2307/592582. ISSN 0003-0279.
4. ↑ "Tibetan script | writing system | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-11-25.