Lhasa Tibetan, or Standard Tibetan, is the Tibetan dialect spoken by educated people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region. It is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
Stonen tablets with prayers in Tibetan at a Temple in McLeod Ganj
Pechas, scriptures of Tibetan Buddhism, at a library in Dharamsala, India
The Tibetan script is a segmental writing system (abugida) of Indic origin used to write certain Tibetic languages, including Tibetan, Dzongkha, Sikkimese, Ladakhi, Jirel and Balti. It has also been used for some non-Tibetic languages in close cultural contact with Tibet, such as Thakali and Old Turkic. The printed form is called uchen script while the hand-written cursive form used in everyday writing is called umĂȘ script. This writing system is used across the Himalayas and Tibet.
A text in Tibetan script suspected to be Sanskrit in content. From the personal artifact collection of Donald Weir.