Central Tibetan

Central Tibetan
Central Tibetan
Ü-Tsang
དབུས་སྐད་, Dbus skad / Ükä; དབུས་གཙང་སྐད་, Dbus-gtsang skad / Ü-tsang kä
	The name of the language written in the Tibetan script
Pronunciation	[wýkɛʔ, wýʔtsáŋ kɛʔ]
Native to	India, Nepal, China (Tibet Autonomous Region)
Region	Tibet Autonomous Region
Native speakers	(1.2 million cited 1990–2014)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Tibeto-Kanauri (?) Bodish Tibetic Central Tibetan; ; ; ; ;
Standard forms	Lasetian; Standard Tibetan;
Writing system	Tibetan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; bod – Lhasa Tibetan; dre – Dolpo; hut – Humla, Limi; lhm – Lhomi (Shing Saapa); muk – Mugom (Mugu); kte – Nubri; ola – Walungge (Gola); loy – Lowa/Loke (Mustang); tcn – Tichurong
Glottolog	tibe1272 Tibetan; sout3216 South-Western Tibetic (partial match); basu1243 Basum
ELP	Walungge
	Dolpo
	Lhomi
	Shingsaba is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Central Tibetan, also known as Dbus, Ü or Ü-Tsang, is the most widely spoken Tibetic language and the basis of Standard Tibetan.

Dbus and Ü are forms of the same name. Dbus is a transliteration of the name in Tibetan script, དབུས་, whereas Ü is the pronunciation of the same in Lhasa dialect, [wy˧˥˧ʔ] (or [y˧˥˧ʔ]). That is, in Tibetan, the name is spelled Dbus and pronounced Ü. All of these names are frequently applied specifically to the prestige dialect of Lhasa.

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