Tseku language

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Tseku
Native toChina
Region Tibet
Native speakers
19,000 (ca. 2000) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tsk
Glottolog tsek1238

Tseku (Tzuku) is a Tibetic language of Tibet. Tournadre (2013) classifies it with Khams Tibetan.

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Tsk or TSK may refer to:

Khams Tibetan is the Tibetic language used by the majority of the people in Kham. Khams is one of the three branches of the traditional classification of Tibetic languages. In terms of mutual intelligibility, Khams could communicate at a basic level with the Ü-Tsang branch.

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

References

  1. Tseku at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)