BEIJING — A Tibetan businessman who campaigned to preserve his native language from the encroaching dominance of Chinese was sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday, after a controversial ...

The Sino-Tibetan language family consists of more than 400 languages spoken by around 1.4 billion speakers worldwide, including major world languages like Chinese, Tibetan and Burmese. However, ...

A year ago February, authorities in the highly restrictive Tibet Autonomous Region of China picked up Tsering Dorje, who lived in a village near Mt. Everest. They held him for a month in what they ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese government is neglecting and actively undermining the Tibetan language as part of continuing efforts to dilute the region's unique culture, a human rights group said on ...

Study Tibetan with Sarah Harding, Jules Levinson, Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen, other skilled instructors, and native Tibetan speakers in an intensive two-week course this summer. When: August 12-23, ...

After eight days of intensive deliberations, the Tibetan Terminology Standardising Board has approved 723 new terms spanning ...

In early April, schools in Ngawa [Ch.: Aba] prefecture, a largely Tibetan region of China’s Sichuan province, reopened following the Covid-19 outbreak. The good news came with a disturbing development ...

Tibetan entrepreneur and language education activist Tashi Wangchuk was detained in January 2016, two months after being featured in a New York Times video report about his fight to preserve the ...

China’s ban on Tibetan language classes has come full circle after a new policy bars children from taking even informal lessons outside of school. “No individual or organization is allowed to hold ...

When asked about media reports that the Tibetan language has been removed from the college entrance examination, or gaokao, in China's Xizang Autonomous Region and is no longer treated as a main ...

BEIJING — Pema Tseden, the Tibetan filmmaker and writer, felt ashamed. For years, he had written stories and screenplays switching between Chinese and his native Tibetan with a nimble linguistic ...