Tibetan alphabet

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Tibetan is a Tibetic language spoken mainly in Tibet in China, and also in India and Nepal, by about 1.2 million people.

The Tibetan alphabet.

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Color coded Tibetan Alphabet

Phags-pa script: In 1260 Kublai Khan commissioned a Tibetan Lama called Blo-gros rGyal-mtshan, who is better known by the title Phags-pa Lama, to create a new national script to replace the Uighur-based script, which was devised in 1208. An edict was issued in 1269 requiring the use of the new script in all official documents, along with the local script as appropriate. (...)

In the 13th century, the Mongol Empire created a common alphabet to unite Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, Mongolian, etc

Ranjana is a Brahmi-derived script used to write Newar in Nepal, and Sanskrit in Tibet.

Tibetan Alphabet, U-Chen script

Tibetan Numbers