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Amdolese / ཨ་མདོའི་སྐད།, A-mdo’i skad
Native to: China
Region: Qinghai, Gansu, Tibet Autonomous Region, Sichuan, Amdo
Native speakers 1.8 million (2005)
Language family: Sino-Tibetan

is the Tibetic language spoken in Amdo (now mostly in Qinghai, some in Ngawa and Gannan). It has two dialects, the farmer dialect and the nomad dialect.

Amdo is one of the three branches of traditional classification of Tibetic languages (the other two being Khams Tibetan and Ü-Tsang). In terms of mutual intelligibility, Amdo could not communicate even at a basic level with the Ü-Tsang branch (including Lhasa Tibetan).

The nomad dialect of Amdo Tibetan is closer to classical written Tibetan as it preserves the word-initial consonant clusters and it is non-tonal, both now elided in the Ü-Tsang branch (including Lhasa Tibetan). Hence, its conservatism in phonology becomes a source of pride among Amdo Tibetans.

LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdo_Tibetan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetic_languages
https://pangloss.cnrs.fr/?lang=en&mode=pro

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