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I know Bengali and Assamese use a Tibetan script, anyone know how similar is it to the one Tibetans use for their language?
by lappet 2y ago
I know Bengali and Assamese use a Tibetan script, anyone know how similar is it to the one Tibetans use for their language?
- buovjaga 2y agoFor reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali%E2%80%93Assamese_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali%E2%80%93Assamese_scrip... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_script
- abe94 2y agoWhile the scripts (Bengali/Assamese and Tibetan) both evolved from the Gupta script, the actual languages are very different. Bengali and Assamese are Indo-Aryan, while Tibetan is from a completely different language family (Sino-Tibetan). When I (bengali speaker) visited Bhutan where they speak a language that is 50% mutually intelligble with Tibetan I didn't understand anything. I was surprised because I thought they might use a number of buddhist loan words, but even the words for dharma, karma, etc. sound completely different in tibetan