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Tibetan Alphabet

The letters and characters of Tibetan written in the Tibetan script, in order — every standard character with its name and codepoint, the additional and punctuation sets, and exactly how many fonts include them. About 3,061,778 people read or write it across 3 countries.

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Tibetan — the language's alphabet, in its traditional order. Tap a character to copy it; each name opens the full character page.

Additional Characters

Used for foreign words, names and technical terms, and older forms of the language.

Punctuation characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning.

Where Tibetan is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Tibetan in the Tibetan script. The map is zoomed to the region where at least 1% of a country's people read it; neighbouring countries are shown unshaded for context.