The Sound of the Khams Tibetan language / dialect (Numbers & Sample Text)
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Khams Tibetan / Kham-Hor / Khampa
Region: China, Bhutan, Tibet Autonomous Region, Amdo, Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan
Native speakers: (1.4 million cited 1994)
Language family: Sino-Tibetan
Khams is one of the three branches of the traditional classification of Tibetic languages (the other two being Amdo Tibetan and Ü-Tsang). In terms of mutual intelligibility, Khams could communicate at a basic level with the Ü-Tsang branch (including Lhasa Tibetan).
Both Khams Tibetan and Lhasa Tibetan evolve to become tonal and do to not preserve the word-initial consonant clusters, which makes them very far from Classical Tibetan, especially when compared to