Old Tibetan

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Old Tibetan refers to the period of Tibetan language reflected in documents from the adoption of writing by the Tibetan Empire in the mid-7th century to works of the early 11th century.

In 816 CE, during the reign of Sadnalegs, literary Tibetan underwent a thorough reform aimed at standardizing the language and vocabulary of the translations being made from Indian texts, and this resulted in what we now call Classical Tibetan.

See also

• Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard
• Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken dialect
• Tibetan alphabet

External links

• Old Tibetan (Wikipedia) - for more information