what do tibetan people speak?
Nepali Language Standard Tibetan Chinese language Baima language Tibetan languages
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 = = = Tibetans as a " national minority " = = = 

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 Western Khmer , also called Cardamom Khmer or Chanthaburi Khmer , is spoken by a very small , isolated population in the Cardamom mountain range extending from western Cambodia into eastern Central Thailand . Although little studied , this variety is unique in that it maintains a definite system of vocal register that has all but disappeared in other dialects of modern Khmer . 

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 Tibetans viewed their country as a living entity controlled by srin ma ( pronounced " sinma " ) , a wild demoness who opposed the propagation of Buddhism in the country . To thwart her evil intentions , King Songtsen Gampo ( the first king of a unified Tibet ) developed a plan to build twelve temples across the country . The temples were built in three stages . In the first stage central Tibet was covered with four temples , known as the " four horns " ( ru bzhi ) . Four more temples , ( mtha 'dul ) , were built in the outer areas in the second stage ; the last four , the yang 'dul , were built on the country 's frontiers . The Jokhag temple was finally built in the heart of the srin ma , ensuring her subjugation . 

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 Gwoyeu Romatzyh ( pinyin : Guóyǔ luómǎzì , literally " National Language Romanization " ) , abbreviated GR , is a system for writing Mandarin Chinese in the Latin alphabet . The system was conceived by Y. R. Chao ( Zhao Yuanren ) and developed by a group of linguists including Chao and Lin Yutang from 1925 to 1926 . Chao himself later published influential works in linguistics using GR . In addition a small number of other textbooks and dictionaries in GR were published in Hong Kong and overseas from 1942 to 2000 . 

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 Khmer / kmɛər / or Cambodian ( natively ភាសាខ ្ មែរ [ pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe ] , or more formally ខេមរភាសា [ kʰeɛmaʔraʔ pʰiːəsaː ] ) is the language of the Khmer people and the official language of Cambodia . With approximately 16 million speakers , it is the second most widely spoken Austroasiatic language ( after Vietnamese ) . Khmer has been influenced considerably by Sanskrit and Pali , especially in the royal and religious registers , through Hinduism and Buddhism . The more colloquial registers have influenced , and have been influenced by , Thai , Lao , Vietnamese , and Cham , all of which , due to geographical proximity and long @-@ term cultural contact , form a sprachbund in peninsular Southeast Asia . It is also the earliest recorded and earliest written language of the Mon – Khmer family , predating Mon and by a significant margin Vietnamese , due to Old Khmer being the language of the historical empires of Chenla , Angkor and , presumably , their earlier predecessor state , Funan . 
