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nouna native or inhabitant of Tibet
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nounHimalayish language spoken in Tibettype of:
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of or relating to or characteristic of Tibet or its people or their language
Definition that contains tibetan
- chinese any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system
- lama a Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism
- tanka a Tibetan religious painting on fabric
- sinitic a group of Sino-Tibetan languages
- kalon tripa the chairman of the Kashag and essentially head of the Tibetan government-in-exile
- sinitic language a group of Sino-Tibetan languages
- kam-tai a family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia
- sky burial a traditional Tibetan funeral ritual in which the corpse is exposed to the open air to be eaten by sacred vultures
- tibeto-burman a branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay Peninsula
- kashag the advisory board of the Tibetan government-in-exile