Amdo Tibetan phrasebook
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Amdo Tibetan (ཨ་མདོ་སྐད), a set of mutually intelligible Tibetan dialects, is the main language of Amdo, namely the Tibetan-speaking regions of Qinghai and Gansu. Nomads in the Sichuan prefectures of Ngawa and Garzê also speak Amdo, while the town folk, many of whom are also conversant in Chinese, speak Gyalrong, Kham Tibetan and other highly internally-divergent languages. There are also many Amdo-born people among the Tibetan Exile community, including the 14th Dalai Lama himself. They usually speak Amdo in addition to Standard Tibetan, English, Hindi, Chinese and other languages.
Pronunciation guideSpoken Amdo is quite close to Old Tibetan, the model of the written language common to all culturally Tibetan regions.
Phrase list
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- Guide text adapted from the Wikivoyage article "Amdo Tibetan phrasebook" by its contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read on Wikivoyage · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
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