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Tibetan, Amdo

A language of China

ISO 639-3: adx

Population	810,000 (Wurm et al. 1987). 538,500 Hbrogpa, 97,600 Rongba, 112,800 Rongmahbrogpa, 60,600 Rtahu.
Region	Huangnan, Hainan, Haibei, and Guoluo (Golog) Tibetan autonomous prefectures; Qinghai Province, Haixi Mongolian-Tibetan-Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture; Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest Gansu Province, Tianzhu Autonomous County; west and north Sichuan Province, Ganzi, Aba (Ngawa) Tibetan autonomous prefectures.
Language map	China
Alternate names	Amdo, Anduo, Ngambo
Dialects	Hbrogpa, Rongba, Rongmahbrogpa, Rtahu. Central Tibetan [bod] or Khams Tibetan [khg] varieties not intelligible. Dialects may not be mutually intelligible. Lexical similarity: 70% with Central Tibetan and Khams Tibetan.
Classification	Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Himalayish, Tibeto-Kanauri, Tibetic, Tibetan, Northern
Language use	All ages.
Language development	Dictionary.
Writing system	Tibetan script.
Comments	Part of Tibetan nationality. Those in ‘Golog’ are called ‘Golog’, ‘Ngolok’, ‘Mgolog’, ‘Ggolo’. SOV, many onset clusters. Pastoral: yak, sheep; wool. Buddhist (Lamaist).

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

GREEN, R. Jeffrey, author. 2009. Phonological profile of Rebkong Amdo Tibetan.

GREEN, R. Jeffrey, author. 2012. "Amdo Tibetan Media Intelligibility."  

GREEN, R. Jeffrey, author. 2012. IPA for Amdo.

GREEN, R. Jeffrey, author. 2012. Spoken Amdo Tibetan Grammar for Language Learners.