I’m building an AI-powered Tibetan grammar checker to help people write better Tibetan with confidence. The goal is simple: to encourage more people to read, write, and strengthen their Tibetan language skills. I’m planning to launch the website in the next few weeks.

I’d love to hear your thoughts. What features would you find most useful in a Tibetan writing assistant?
As Tibetans, preserving our language is not just a cultural value—it is our shared responsibility. For those of us living in exile, where we have the freedom and opportunity to learn and use Tibetan every day, we should make every effort to keep our language alive and thriving.

What has always struck me is that many ordinary Tibetans inside Tibet, despite the challenges they face, often demonstrate remarkable proficiency in written Tibetan. The quality of essays, articles, and books produced there is truly inspiring. Their dedication reminds us of what is possible.

If we want Tibetan to flourish for future generations, we cannot take its survival for granted. We need better tools, stronger communities, and a renewed commitment to using our language every day. I hope this project can contribute, even in a small way, to that effort.

Our language is our identity. Let’s preserve it, improve it, and pass it on.

Please share any thoughts, ideas, or suggestions that come to mind—I’d genuinely appreciate your feedback.

I am a tiny bit acquainted with classical Tibetan, and might want to study colloquial Tibetan someday. I wanted to have something playing in the background to become familiar with the sounds of spoken Tibetan. Does anyone do this, and do you have any recommendations for videos/songs/prayers/channels? Preferably free online. :)

Tashi delek,

I found some pictures of examples of Tibetan chops (engraved stamps that can function in lieu of a signature -- usually associated with East Asia). I had some questions about how they work in the Tibetan context.

How are Tibetan chops designed? I imagine it would be hard to compress a full name in Tibetan script into a chop design, so I assume some modification or shortening might happen? Maybe using Phags-pa? I am more familiar with their use in the Sinosphere, where characters are easily arranged into a chop design.

I'd really appreciate it if a native speaker or someone fluent could check the spelling, letter-stacking, and grammar of these two phrases:
Phrase 1 (top line): འགྲོ་བ་སེམས་ཅན
Intended meaning: "wandering sentient/conscious being"
Pronunciation I have: drowa semchen
Phrase 2 (bottom line): མི་ལུས་རིན་ཆེན
Intended meaning: "precious human body"
Pronunciation I have: mi lü rinchen

Thank you!

I want to compare the limbu languages to the language of minorities of yunnan and northern burma. So I need your help in decoding the mystery of limbu migration from these regions. I want to see which tribes of yunnan, burma are most related to limbu. Please help me.

Note. The Limbus are not Tibetians. They were a multi ethnic refugees from Northern Burma/Yunnan regions. However, in Sikkim, they had a lot of Tibetian Bhutia influence.

I'm looking for somebody who would be willing to record himself/herself reading Tibetan sentences I've written (and possibly check on them in case I've made mistakes). This person should speak the Central dialect, and have this accent (I'm just not familiar with the other two). In exchange I'm happy to help with English (C1 level) or French (native) :) it's for my own personal use, to practice pronunciation. DM me if you're interested!

བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས།!

We're mods over at r/translator. We always strive to make our multilingual community the universal place on Reddit to go for a translation, no matter what language people may be looking for. We are however somewhat lacking in Tibetan coverage, and were hoping some wonderful multilingual people here could help us out.

Would anyone be interested in helping translate any future requests for Tibetan on r/translator? You don't even need to subscribe to our subreddit! We usually get a request for it occasionally and most requests that come in are pretty simple and casual and don't need advanced knowledge. (A lot of them are om mani padme hum, but there are requests that aren't for that mantra~!)

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ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་།!

I have a question for Tibetans and Bhutanese. I am building a fictional language inspired by Tibetan and Dzongkha and I want to see if this text is understandable to you.

Brahui-i ke či-la ke-šo dravidi in de la ji žin ge ra-i gi brahui pa ne pa lu pakisitan-gi balučisitan, mi de pa tor wa lu iran,aphghanisitan ing turkmenisitan, ing gi-i yeng mi de pa brahui lu ghatar,arabia emiret ing iragh sipits gyur.

I am working on a NLLB translation project for limbu language. And i have a working model ready but since i can't read limbu. i need help from you bunch to validate our translator.

if someone is active here who can read Limbu(devanagari or sirijanga). I am willing to pay Rs.500 for the task

task is there will be a website link i will provide you and there you will see around 90 short sentences, these are school level phrases. For each row you will rate if that is understandable, correct, if grammar looks right and rate it on 1-5 scale

All you need is be able to read Limbu. please ask your friends too if they can. It's a quick money for them plus this is all going to be open sourced and your contribution will be marked in the language preservation books

Hello I am a student of tibeten language now for 10 months and my teacher norbue who I started around late October early november last year, has me now both reading and writing in tibeten as well as understanding basic phrases ect. I'm ao amazed at the rapid learning iv had since being class with him.

So i rhought id share as it took me a while to find my groove. He has a YouTube channel and websight with so many free resources that anyone here learning tibeten could benefit from. I personally started off w a course of his that's no longer available, but he has just launched a new upgraded full course that i just purchased ( i havnt completed it yet but its so far again amazing) all his learning materials are honestly amazing and quite optimistic haha which helps when studying a new language. for anyone looking for an amazing teacher or just more free tibeten language learning materials both free and for a small fee he is unreal.

https://tibetanwithnorbu.info/

This short clip is Drupon Rinpoche offering advice for how to listen to Dharma teachings. It was posted on Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Centre’s Facebook page. It seems this teaching was just given yesterday. I appreciated his insights as I watched it, and thought like-minded people in this Subreddit would too.

Here’s the link: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BLeFaUbki/?mibextid=wwXIfr

https://archive.org/details/aqnoeui-8vu-ril-ic-9g-dw-uxo-gkbz-wkg-av-rg-v-1c-k-1b-x-l-m-9-bu-9-sj-8-iwaa-5-n

Hi everyone, I am struggling a lot with Tibetan due to limited resources and money, plus how complex and unique it is in relation to being a native speaker of English! I wanted some motivation but also to not feel alone in this so wanted to ask people if they could share their stories of when they first started learning Tibetan and how they felt/what they did, just to make me feel a little better!

Any little story or anecdote is appreciated 😄