page_title: Standard Tibetan
section_title: Numerals
hierarchical_section_title: Standard Tibetan / Numerals
caption_attribution_description: Pejas, scriptures of Tibetan Buddhism, at a library in Dharamsala.
context_page_description: Standard Tibetan is a widely spoken form of the Tibetic languages that has many commonalities with the speech of Lhasa, an Ü-Tsang dialect. For this reason, Standard Tibetan is often called Lhasa Tibetan. Tibetan is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. The written language is based on Classical Tibetan and is highly conservative.
context_section_description: Unlike many other languages of East Asia  and especially Chinese, another Sino-Tibetan language, there are no numeral auxiliaries or measure words used in counting in Tibetan although words expressive of a collective or integral are often used after the tens, sometimes after a smaller number.
  In scientific and astrological works, the numerals, as in Vedic Sanskrit, are expressed by symbolical words.
caption: Pejas, scriptures of Tibetan Buddhism, at a library in Dharamsala, India
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