Editing Tibetan script (section)

{{Short description|Tibetan writing system}}
{{Infobox writing system
| name        = Tibetan
| type        = [[Abugida]]
| time        = {{Circa|620}}–present
| languages   = {{hlist|list_style=line-height:1.3em;|[[Lhasa Tibetan|Tibetan]]|[[Dzongkha]]|[[Ladakhi language|Ladakhi]]|[[Sikkimese language|Sikkimese]]|[[Balti language|Balti]]|[[Sherpa language|Sherpa]]|[[Jirel language|Jirel]]|[[Yolmo language|Yolmo]]|[[Tshangla language|Tshangla]]|}}
| fam1         = [[Egyptian hieroglyphs]]
| fam2         = [[Proto-Sinaitic]]
| fam3         = [[Phoenician script|Phoenician]]
| fam4         = [[Aramaic script|Aramaic]]
| fam5        = [[Brahmi script|Brahmi]]
| fam6        = [[Gupta script|Gupta]]<ref>{{cite book | title = Language in South Asia |editor-last1 = Kachru |editor-first1 = Braj B. |editor-last2 = Kachru |editor-first2 = Yamuna |editor-last3 = Sridhar |editor-first3 = S. N. |chapter = Writing systems of major and minor languages |last1 = Daniels |first1 = Peter T. |pages = 285–308 |chapter-url = https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511619069.017 | date = January 2008|doi = 10.1017/CBO9780511619069.017 |isbn = 978-0-521-78653-9 }}</ref><ref name="masica">{{cite book |last1=Masica |first1=Colin |title=The Indo-Aryan languages |date=1993 |page=143}}</ref>
| sisters     = [[Meitei script|Meitei]],<ref name="Meithei" >{{cite book |last1=Chelliah |first1=Shobhana Lakshmi |title=A Grammar of Meithei |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=noCHVvu0P8oC |quote="Meithei Mayek is part of the Tibetan group of scripts, which originated from the Gupta Brahmi script" |publisher=De Gruyter |date=2011 |page=355 |isbn=9783110801118 |access-date=2023-03-19 |archive-date=2023-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413062923/https://books.google.com/books?id=noCHVvu0P8oC |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{citation |last1=Singh |first1=Harimohon Thounaojam |title=The Evolution and Recent Development of the Meetei Mayek Script |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263852161 |publisher=Cambridge University Press India |page=28 |date=January 2011 }}</ref> [[Sharada script|Sharada]], [[Siddham script|Siddham]], [[Kalinga script|Kalinga]], [[Bhaiksuki script|Bhaiksuki]]
| children    = 
* [[Lepcha script|Lepcha]]
* [[Khema script|Khema]]
* [[Phagspa script|Phagspa]]
* [[Marchen script|Marchen]]
* [[Tamyig script|Tamyig]]
| native_name = {{bo-textonly|བོད་ཡིག་}}
| sample      = Om Mani Padme Hum mantra.svg
| caption     = The [[mantra]] "[[Om mani padme hum]]"
| imagesize   = 250px
| unicode     = [https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0F00.pdf U+0F00&ndash;U+0FFF] [http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2022.pdf Final&nbsp;Accepted&nbsp;Script&nbsp;Proposal of the First Usable Edition (3.0)]
| iso15924    = Tibt
}}
{{Contains special characters|Tibetan}}
{{Alphabet}}
{{Brahmic}}

The '''Tibetan script''' is a segmental writing system, or ''[[abugida]]'', forming a part of the [[Brahmic scripts]], and used to write certain [[Tibetic languages]], including [[Lhasa Tibetan|Tibetan]], [[Dzongkha]], [[Sikkimese language|Sikkimese]], [[Ladakhi language|Ladakhi]], [[Jirel language|Jirel]] and [[Balti language|Balti]]. Its exact origins are a subject of research but is traditionally considered to be developed by [[Thonmi Sambhota]] for King [[Songtsen Gampo]].

The printed form is called [[uchen script]] while the hand-written form used in everyday writing is called [[umê script]]. This writing system is especially used across the [[Himalayan Region]].