Tibetan script

Tibetan
བོད་ཡིག་
Tibetan; བོད་ཡིག་
	The mantra "Om mani padme hum"
Script type	Abugida
Time period	c. 620–present
Direction	Left-to-right
Languages	Tibetan; Dzongkha; Ladakhi; Sikkimese; Balti; Sherpa; Jirel; Yolmo; Tshangla;
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Aramaic Brahmi Gupta Tibetan; ; ; ; ; ;
Child systems	Lepcha; Khema; Phagspa; Marchen; Tamyig;
Sister systems	Meitei, 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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This article contains Tibetan script. Without proper rendering support, you may see very small fonts, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters.

The Tibetan script is a segmental writing system, or abugida, forming a part of the Brahmic scripts, and used to write certain Tibetic languages, including Tibetan, Dzongkha, Sikkimese, Ladakhi, Jirel and Balti. Its exact origins are a subject of research but is traditionally considered to be developed by Thonmi Sambhota for King Songtsen Gampo.

The printed form is called uchen script while the hand-written form used in everyday writing is called umê script. This writing system is especially used across the Himalayan Region.

^ Daniels, Peter T. (January 2008). "Writing systems of major and minor languages". In Kachru, Braj B.; Kachru, Yamuna; Sridhar, S. N. (eds.). Language in South Asia. pp. 285–308. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511619069.017. ISBN 978-0-521-78653-9.
^ Masica, Colin (1993). The Indo-Aryan languages. p. 143.
^ Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi (2011). A Grammar of Meithei. De Gruyter. p. 355. ISBN 9783110801118. Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2023-03-19. Meithei Mayek is part of the Tibetan group of scripts, which originated from the Gupta Brahmi script
^ Singh, Harimohon Thounaojam (January 2011), The Evolution and Recent Development of the Meetei Mayek Script, Cambridge University Press India, p. 28

[1] Daniels, Peter T. (January 2008). "Writing systems of major and minor languages". In Kachru, Braj B.; Kachru, Yamuna; Sridhar, S. N. (eds.). Language in South Asia. pp. 285–308. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511619069.017. ISBN 978-0-521-78653-9.

[masica-2] Masica, Colin (1993). The Indo-Aryan languages. p. 143.

[Meithei-3] Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi (2011). A Grammar of Meithei. De Gruyter. p. 355. ISBN 9783110801118. Archived from the original on 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2023-03-19. Meithei Mayek is part of the Tibetan group of scripts, which originated from the Gupta Brahmi script

[4] Singh, Harimohon Thounaojam (January 2011), The Evolution and Recent Development of the Meetei Mayek Script, Cambridge University Press India, p. 28

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