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	The Sino-Tibetan Language Family
		The Tibeto-Burman part of the name refers to 389 languages spoken from the Tibetan plateau in the north to the Malay peninsula in the south, and from northern Pakistan in the west ti northeastern Vietnam in the east.
		Tibetan has several distinct spoken varieties that are in many instances not mutually comprehensible but that have over the centuries maintained a common literary tradition, much like Chinese.
		In general, the dialects of central Tibet and nearby areas are considered Tibetan dialects, while other varieties such as Dzongkha, Sikkimese, Sherpa, and Ladakhi, are considered closely-related but separate languages.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/may/SinoTibetanLanguageFamily.htm (871 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Tibetan language
		Ladakh (Tibetan script: à½£à¼‹à½‘à¾à½‚à½¦à¼‹;, Hindi: à¤²à¤¦à¥à¤¦à¤¾à¤–à¤¼, Urdu: Ù„Ø¯Ù‘Ø§Ø®; IPA:, land of high passes) is a region in the state of Jammu and Kashmir in Northern India sandwiched between the Karakoram mountain range to the north and the Himalayas to the south.
		Tibetan is typically classified as a Tibeto-Burman language which in turn is, according to the most widespread theory, a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
		Tibetan is also spoken by approximately 150,000 exile speakers who have moved from modern-day Tibet to India and other countries.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tibetan-language (1256 words)

	AllRefer.com - Tibetan language (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
		Tibetan language, member of the Tibeto-Burman subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (see Sino-Tibetan languages).
		Tibetan tends to be monosyllabic and to lack inflection.
		Tibetan is also tonal, having six tones in all: short high, long high, short low, long low, high falling, and low falling.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/Tibetanl.html (276 words)

	The Potomac Conference - Sino-Tibetan Relations: Prospects for the Future
		Although the visit of the Tibetan delegation to China was confirmed, the Chinese army in June 1950 attacked Den Chung-gu Gon in the Chamdo area and confiscated all the wireless equipment of the Tibetan frontier observation posts.
		Being an interpreter to the Tibetan delegation at that time, I was a witness to the events surrounding the signing of the "Seventeen-Point Agreement." The members of the Tibetan delegation left Tibet in two groups and reached Peking on April 22 and 26, 1951, respectively.
		They asked His Holiness and the Tibetan Government to immediately expel the two Prime Ministers and said the two were agents of America and British "imperialists." The reason that the Chinese were extremely upset with the Tibetan Prime Ministers is that the two were against the "Seventeen-Point Agreement" right from the beginning.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/indiv/area/tibet-potomac/historical/taklha.html (3763 words)

	Sino-Tibetan Languages
		The major languages in the Tibeto-Burman subfamily are Tibetan, which is the dominant language in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, and Burmese, which is the national language of Myanmar (formerly known as Burma).
		Tibetan, the principal language of the Bodic branch, is spoken throughout Tibet, in parts of western China, in Nepal, and in communities of Tibetan refugees in India.
		The closest relatives of Tibetan are Bodic languages spoken in Nepal such as Tamang and Gurung, and several languages spoken in small communities in northwestern India.
	autocww.colorado.edu /~blackmon/E64ContentFiles/LinguisticsAndLanguages/SinoTibetanLanguages.html (1006 words)

	The Official Website of the Central Tibetan Administration
		Dharamshala:The Tibetan Parliament in Exile has sanctioned a total revised budget of...
		Dharamshala:The final election for the Tibetan Welfare Officer of Dharamshala was held...
		The Central Tibetan Administration's position on the Shugden/Dholgyal followers from Tibet
	www.tibet.net (144 words)

	Tibetan News Update
		Despite Deng's conditions for dialogue being interpreted by the Tibetan side as "anything but independence can be discussed," what he actually meant was that nothing involving the political issue could be discussed, since all political issues of Tibet evolve from the Tibetan claim to independence.
		Tibetan autonomy is thus incapable of satisfying Tibetans' desires for self-determination nor is it likely to be capable of preserving Tibetan cultural and national identity.
		China therefore aims to constantly restrict Tibetan autonomy in the hopes that, as predicted in Marxist theory, Tibetan religion, culture and nationalism will gradually diminish and be assimilated into Chinese cultural and national identity.
	www.friends-of-tibet.org.nz /news/august_2003_update_20.htm (1472 words)

	SINO-TIBETAN LANGUAGES,
		CHINESE LANGUAGE,); and the Tibeto-Burman, the best-known members of which are Tibetan and Burmese.
		The Tibeto-Burman subfamily, although encompassing more languages than the Sinitic, and although spoken by a wider variety of ethnic groups, is more difficult to classify and actually covers a smaller population.
		On this day in 1959, Tibetans band together in revolt, surrounding the summer palace of the Dalai Lama in defiance of Chinese occupation forces.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=222420 (796 words)

	Tibetan youth congress (The largest Tibetan NGO) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Tibetans expelled all the Chinese and Manchu troops from Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.
		Tibetans are forced to live in the high hills while Chinese occupy all the low and fertile lands.
		Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest non-governmental organisation in exile, after series of meetings and discussions with the ex-Centrex members and intellectuals finally campaigned for the withdrawal of the referendum as they were convinced that the time is not ripe and conducive for the Tibetans to go for referendum.
	www.tibetanyouthcongress.org /ttf.htm (3946 words)

	STEDT: The Sino-Tibetan Family
		As the relationships between Chinese and Tibetan on the one hand, and Tibetan and Burmese on the other became obvious, vague notions of an "Indo-Chinese" family (Hodgson 1853, Conrady 1896) began to crystallize.
		The existence of the TB family was posited as early as the 1850's, when it was noticed that many words in "Written Tibetan" (WT), attested since the 7th c.
		A.D. British scholars and colonial administrators in India and Burma began to study some of the dozens of little-known "tribal" languages of the region that seemed to be genetically related to the two great literary languages, Tibetan and Burmese.
	stedt.berkeley.edu /html/STfamily.html (3044 words)

	Tibetan Health - Volume 21, Issue 2
		His message conveyed the need of equal attention to both Tibetan and local residents and thus recommended Health Department to carry on its work of creating awareness, vaccination, rehabilitation etc. at large in the combination of traditional and western medical approach.
		Tenpa C Samkhar expressed his deep appreciation and gratitude to the Tibetan Kashag for graciously extending his retirement and also explained in no uncertain terms why he had requested the Kashag to revoke their extension.
		She said, since this is the high time for Tibetans to contribute their best for the civilization, every single contribution whether it is as small as a drop of water shall be counted with high appreciation.
	www.tibet.net /en/health/news (3685 words)

	International Campaign for Tibet: Advocacy: Sino-Tibetan Negotiations
		In order to bring about a peaceful solution to the status of Tibet, ICT advocates a process of negotiations between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Chinese government.
		Since then, envoys of the Dalai Lama have visited China and Tibetan areas at the invitation of the Chinese government on three occasions.
		Representatives of the Dalai Lama and China met from 25 May to 8 June 2003, following the leadership changes in Beijing.
	www.savetibet.org /advocacy/sinotibetan (188 words)

	The Official website of the Central Tibetan Administration
		NOTICE: Tibetan Freedom, Sheja and Tibetan Bulletin readers can now pay their subscription or donation to the concerned Offices of Tibet in your region.
		This arrangement shall not apply to subscribers in India.
		All materials as published in this Web site are copyright © 2003 Tibetan Computer Resource Centre (TCRC), and the respective Central Tibetan Administration offices, Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India; all rights reserved.
	www.tibet.net /en/eng_includes/copyright.html (176 words)

	Sino-Tibetan Negotations (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sino-Tibetan Dialogue Statement of Kalon Tashi Wangdi - Tibetan Government-in-Exile at Second International Tibet Support Group Conference.
		The Tibetan government's position on negotiations with China
		This site is maintained and updated by The Office of Tibet, the official agency of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in London.
	www.tibet.com /Proposal/index.html (116 words)

	Sino-Tibetan languages Summary
		Tibetan writing begins in the seventh century CE; the script is an offshoot of the Indian family of scripts and continues to be used today.
		Newari, the language of the original inhabitants of the Kathmandu valley, was written in Devanagari script beginning in the seventeenth century (with at least one manuscript dated as early as the fourteenth century).
		For example, while standard Lhasa Tibetan is tonal, other Tibetan dialects are not; and several reconstructions of Old Chinese do not require tone: Tone appears to have developed to compensate for the loss of consonantal distinctions.
	www.bookrags.com /Sino-Tibetan_languages (2063 words)

	History of Tibet, Map of Tibet, History of Tibet, Map of Tibet
		The Tibetans retaliated by massadring the Manchus in Lhasa.
		The Tibetan Government sent an army, crushed the Nyarong Chief, whose invasion of his neighbour was the cause of the trouble, and set up a Tibetan Governor in his place, charging him with the general supervision of the affairs of Derge and the Horpa principalities.
		On May 23, 1951 a Tibetan delegation, which had gone to Peking to hold talks on the invasion, was forced to sign the so-called "17-point Agreement on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet", with threats of more military action in Tibet and by forging the official seals of Tibet.
	www.friends-of-tibet.org.nz /tibet.html (3786 words)

	When Silk was Gold
		Tibetan sand mandalas will be the topic of special lectures given by Dr. Robert Thurman, the Jay Tosongkhapa Chair in Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Department of Religion, Columbia University, New York, and by Dr. Paul Nietupski, Professor of Asian Religions at John Carroll University in Cleveland.
		The Tibetan opera of Sukyi Nima is a traditional piece of folk theater that has been performed in Tibetan monasteries, villages, and in the Dalai Lama's Court since the 14th century.
		The folk tale of Sukyi Nima is poignant for Tibetans who have fled their country and are in exile as a result of China's invasion from 1949 to 1951.
	www.clevelandart.org /exhibit/silk/mandala.html (868 words)

	Tibetan alphabet, pronunciation and language
		The minister then reputedly devised a script for Tibetan based on the Devanagari model and also wrote a grammar of Tibetan based on Sanskrit grammars.
		Tibetan literature is mainly concerned with Buddhist themes and includes works translated from Sanskrit and Chinese and original Tibetan works.
		In Mongolia Tibetan is considered the Classical language of Buddhism and was widely taught until quite recently.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/tibetan.htm (491 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Tibetan
		Tibetan is one of the oldest Sino-Tibetan language to be recorded.
		The earliest Tibetan inscriptions date from 7th to 8th century CE in what is called the dbu can (which translates into "with a head") script, which also appeared on manuscripts from around 11th CE and remained until the modern day in the form of printed Tibetan text.
		The first line is the Tibetan sign, and the second line is the traditional transliteration of the sign that reflected how the sign was pronounced in the 7th century CE (see below).
	www.ancientscripts.com /tibetan.html (454 words)

	Tibetan Language Background
		The Tibetan language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages.
		The great Tibetan king, Songtsen Gampo sent one of his ministers, Thume Sambota, to India, to create an alphabet for the Tibetan language.
		In his book Translating Buddhism from Tibetan, Joe B. Wilson points out that Westerners who learn this dialect are more likely to be able to communicate with Tibetans, wherever they come from than are those who have studied other dialects.
	www.learntibetan.net /other/background.htm (365 words)

	Familiarity breeding contempt- the result of Sino-Tibetan Dialogue Process - www.phayul.com
		After five rounds of direct talks between the Tibetan envoys and Chinese representatives, the much expected sixth round of talk did not turn up so far, although the leaders of Tibetan Government-in-Exile (TGIE) repeatedly stated that every attempt to create a conducive atmosphere for the dialogue process is being made from its side.
		Tibetan leaders in exile have lately hinted of loosing hope with the way Chinese leaders are co-operating with the dialogue process and, even expressed unwillingness to appeal fellow Tibetans to restraint from anti-China campaigns, as they did earlier.
		Tibetans Protest in New Delhi against the visit of Hu Jintao.
	www.phayul.com /news/article.aspx?id=15463&article=Familiarity+breeding+contempt-+the+result+of+Sino-Tibetan+Dialogue+Process (1043 words)

	Tibetan scholar provides insights on Sino-Tibetan relations \| Twin Cities Daily Planet \| Minneapolis, Saint Paul
		For the past several years, the Tibetan Government in Exile has held regular meetings with the Chinese, working on their fundamental differences, issues and complaints, and confidence building.
		Sangay thinks that Tibetans outside of Tibet need to make sure that they and their children stay educated about the situation in Tibet, as well as getting involved in local groups and organizations.
		As Tibetans migrate abroad, Sangay said he fears that the fervor with which many Tibetans have fought for their country will be diluted by American pop culture or the need to assimilate.
	www.tcdailyplanet.net /node/2924 (1079 words)

	China Ethnic Minority: Zang (Tibetan) People
		The Tibetan language that belongs to the Tibetan-Burman group of the Sino-Tibetan language family is divided into three dialects and has both spoken and written forms.
		In the scientific arena, Tibetan medicine, combining various forms of traditional Chinese medicine, is said to have developed the schools of acupuncture and massage.
		The Tibetan knife, sharp and delicate, is often used to cut meat.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /intro/nationality/tibetan/index.htm (623 words)

	The Raw Story \| US concerned over stalled Sino-Tibetan dialogue
		Dobriansky, the special coordinator for Tibetan issues in the administration of President George W. Bush, also asked Beijing to allow international access to a "detained" child chosen by the Dalai Lama as his successor.
		Believed to be the world's youngest political prisoner, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was six years old when he disappeared from public view in 1995 after being appointed by the Dalai Lama and is believed to have been under a form of house arrest ever since.
		She cited China's shooting of unarmed Tibetans fleeing into Nepal last fall.
	rawstory.com /news/afp/US_concerned_over_stalled_Sino_Tibe_03132007.html (506 words)

	OHCHR: Tibetan () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It belongs to the Tibeto-Burman family and is closely related to the languages of the "Bhotia" group.
		Written Tibetan is reported to be based on a southern dialect, but probably includes many separate languages.
		However, of the major languages of Asia, Tibetan has the most in common with Burmese, as both languages belong to the same branch of the Sino-Tibetan family.Tibetan is written in an Indian-derived script introduced around the 7th century A.D, probably based on the Sanskrit.
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/tic.htm (117 words)

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