Editing Uchen script (section)

== Style ==
[[Image:Standard Tibetan name.svg|200px|thumb|''Bod skad'' ("[[Tibetic languages|Tibetan language]]") written in uchen style. The "head" of the script is the horizontal line atop each character.]]
The Tibetan script is based on Indic-[[Brahmi script]]s of the time; that is the alphabets and scripts emerging from India. In form, the script includes thirty [[consonant]], and [[vowel]] variants which are written above or below the consonant. In style it is written horizontally left to right and is semi-syllabic when read aloud. These letters can be stacked in order to create a syllable, or small group of letters, that is a section of the full word.<ref name=":0" />

Tibetan and Bhutan written scripts that use the Tibetan language, have been grouped into two categories.

# The first category being the Uchen script. The word Uchen translates to 'with a head', this refers to the elongated letters of the alphabet, that are tall and block like with linear strokes.<ref name=":3">{{cite journal |last1=Zhou |first1=Fengming |last2=Wang |first2=Weilan |last3=Lin |first3=Qiang |title=A Novel Text Line Segmentation Method Based on Contour Curve Tracking for Tibetan Historical Documents |journal=International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence |date=October 2018 |volume=32 |issue=10 |pages=1854025 |doi=10.1142/s0218001418540253 |s2cid=53291082 }}</ref> Uchen script is the formal, upright and block style that is visually larger and less widely used amongst the civilians of Tibet and Bhutan. Uchen script, as opposed to Umê script, is believed to have been used as a formal script, to be used to record important documents and events and most probably used by more educated members of Tibetan society of the period. 
# The second category of Tibetan scripts are the cursive, less formal styles of writing the Tibetan script. These styles are grouped into the name [[Umê script]] meaning the 'headless' script. The translation of 'headless' refers to their lack of 'headed' elongated letters, the lack of such, making it an easier script to learn and simpler to write.<ref name=":3" /> Their form is a variant on Uchen script. The letters of the alphabet are visually shorter, less block like in form, and more slanted following the scribes movement of hand.<ref name=":3" /> Some styles of Umê include local variants in style, a cursive style and a style simplified for children to learn. Therefore Umê script has more of a short and slanted form, using the same alphabet and basic shape and line structure as Uchen script, but having variants in [[typography]] and form.