Sino-Tibetan · ISO 639-3 khg
Khams Tibetan Language
Khams Tibetan is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by about 1.5 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Tibetan script.
Where Khams Tibetan is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Khams Tibetan
Language family
- Sino-Tibetan
- Bodic
- Bodish
- Early Old Tibetan
- Middle Old Tibetan
- Late Old Tibetan
- Kham-Hor
- Khams Tibetan
Writing system
Tibetan script
Related languages
About the Khams Tibetan language
Khams Tibetan is spoken by about 1.5 million people, which makes it the 369th most spoken language in the world — just behind Kafa (1.5 million) and ahead of Southern Dong (1.5 million). It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family and, more precisely, to the Kham-Hor group within the Bodish branch.
Where is Khams Tibetan spoken?
Khams Tibetan is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in China (1.4 million).
Khams Tibetan is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Khams 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, Dzongkha and Amdo Tibetan.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 khg.
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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.