Central Tibetan

Central Tibetan
Central Tibetan
Ü-Tsang
དབུས་སྐད་, Dbus skad / Ükä; དབུས་གཙང་སྐད་, Dbus-gtsang skad / Ü-tsang kä
	The name of the language written in the Tibetan script
Pronunciation	[wýkɛʔ, wýʔtsáŋ kɛʔ]
Native to	China Tibet; Qinghai; Garzê; Ngawa;
Region	Tibet (Ü-Tsang, Amdo and Kham)
Native speakers	(1.2 million cited 1990–2014)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Tibeto-Kanauri (?) Bodish Tibetic Central Tibetan; ; ; ; ;
Standard forms	Lasetian; Standard Tibetan;
Writing system	Tibetan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; bod – Lhasa Tibetan; dre – Dolpo; hut – Humla, Limi; lhm – Lhomi (Shing Saapa); muk – Mugom (Mugu); kte – Nubri; ola – Walungge (Gola); loy – Lowa/Loke (Mustang); tcn – Tichurong
Glottolog	tibe1272 Tibetan; sout3216 South-Western Tibetic (partial match); basu1243 Basum
ELP	Walungge
	Dolpo
	Lhomi
	Areas where Tibetan language is spoken
	Shingsaba is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Central Tibetan language, also known as or Ü-Tsang dialect, Dbus Tibetan, or Ü Tibetan, is the most widely spoken Tibetic language and the basis of Standard Tibetan.

Dbus is the Wylie spelling of the name in Tibetan script, དབུས་, whereas Ü is the pronunciation of the same in Lhasa dialect, [wy˧˥˧ʔ] (or [y˧˥˧ʔ]). All of these names are frequently applied specifically to the prestige dialect of Lhasa.