Bodish languages

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Bodish languages are a subgroup of the Sino-Tibetan language family that includes Tibetan and related languages spoken primarily across the Himalayan region and parts of East and South Asia.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Bodish languages canonical 2

Statements (63)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Sino-Tibetan languages subgroup
language subgroup
associatedWith Himalayan cultures
Tibetan Buddhism NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Himalayish languages
hasMember Amdo Tibetan NERFINISHED
Balti NERFINISHED
Central Tibetan NERFINISHED
Classical Tibetan NERFINISHED
Dzongkha NERFINISHED
Gurung language NERFINISHED
Jirel language NERFINISHED
Khams Tibetan NERFINISHED
Ladakhi NERFINISHED
Lepcha language NERFINISHED
Lhomi NERFINISHED
Manangba language
Newar language (Tibeto-Burman classification, in some proposals)
Sherpa language
Sikkimese
Tamangic languages
Thakali language NERFINISHED
Tibetan language
Tshangla NERFINISHED
hasProtoLanguage Proto-Bodish (reconstructed)
includes East Bodish languages
Tamangic languages
Tibetic languages
West Himalayish languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan languages
linguisticFeature agglutinative morphology
predominantly SOV word order
tonal contrasts in many varieties
majorLanguage Balti NERFINISHED
Dzongkha NERFINISHED
Ladakhi
Standard Tibetan NERFINISHED
region East Asia
Himalayas NERFINISHED
South Asia
spokenIn Arunachal Pradesh NERFINISHED
Bhutan NERFINISHED
China NERFINISHED
Gansu NERFINISHED
Gilgit-Baltistan NERFINISHED
Himalayan region
India
Ladakh NERFINISHED
Nepal NERFINISHED
Pakistan NERFINISHED
Qinghai NERFINISHED
Sichuan NERFINISHED
Sikkim NERFINISHED
Tibet Autonomous Region NERFINISHED
Yunnan NERFINISHED
subclassOf Sino-Tibetan languages NERFINISHED
usedFor Buddhist religious literature
administration in Bhutan (Dzongkha)
liturgical purposes in Tibetan Buddhism
writingSystemUsed Devanagari NERFINISHED
Dzongkha script NERFINISHED
Latin script NERFINISHED
Tibetan script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan ancestorOf Bodish languages
Tibeto-Burman languages hasSubgroup Bodish languages