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Lhasa Tibetan (ལྷ་སའི་སྐད་)
Native to: Lhasa
Region: Tibet Autonomous Region, Kham
Native speakers: (1.2 million cited 1990 census)
Language family: Sino-Tibetan

is the dialect spoken by educated Lhasa people. It is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

In the traditional "three-branched" classification of Tibetic languages, the Lhasa dialect belongs to the Central Tibetan branch (the other two being Khams Tibetan and Amdo Tibetan). In terms of mutual intelligibility, Khams could communicate at a basic level with Lhasa Tibetan, while Amdo could not. Both Lhasa Tibetan and Khams Tibetan evolved to become tonal and do not preserve the word-initial consonant clusters, which makes them very far from Classical Tibetan, especially when compared to the more conservative Amdo Tibetan.

Like many languages, Lhasa Tibetan has a variety of language registers:

Phal-skad ("demotic language"): the vernacular speech.
Zhe-sa ("polite respectful speech"): the formal spoken style, particularly prominent in Lhasa.
Chos-skad ("religious {or book} language"): the literary style in which the scriptures and other classical works are written.

LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhasa_Tibetan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhasa
https://www.gsungrab.org/en/home/

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