Sino-Tibetan · ISO 639-3 adx
Amdo Tibetan Language ཨ་མདོའི་སྐད།
Amdo Tibetan is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by about 1.8 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Tibetan script.
Where Amdo Tibetan is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Amdo Tibetan
Language family
- Sino-Tibetan
- Bodic
- Bodish
- Early Old Tibetan
- Middle Old Tibetan
- North-Eastern Tibetic
- Amdo Tibetan
Writing system
Tibetan script
Related languages
About the Amdo Tibetan language
Amdo Tibetan (ཨ་མདོའི་སྐད།) is spoken by about 1.8 million people, which makes it the 329th most spoken language in the world — just behind Kipsigis (1.9 million) and ahead of Bashkir (1.8 million). It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family and, more precisely, to the North-Eastern Tibetic group within the Bodish branch.
Where is Amdo Tibetan spoken?
Amdo Tibetan is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in China (1.8 million).
Amdo Tibetan is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Amdo Tibetan is written in the Tibetan script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Tichurong, Tibetan, Khams Tibetan and Dzongkha.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 adx.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.