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Tibetans

Тибетцы

language area per Glottologcensus counts
6,282,187
China, census 2010 (ethnicity / nationality)
Sino-Tibetan
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in China: 6,282,187 people in the 2010 census.

Main language: Tibetan. Glottolog classifies it in the Sino-Tibetan family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

China2010 · ethnicity / nationality · «藏族» · [1]
6,282,187

Languages and their lineage

Tibetan

  1. Sino-Tibetansino1245
  2. Bodicbodi1256
  3. Bodishbodi1257
  4. Early Old Tibetanoldm1245
  5. Middle Old Tibetantibe1276
  6. Late Old Tibetanlate1253
  7. Central Tibetancent2346
  8. Tibetantibe1272

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

Han ChineseHui peopleTujia peopleChinese peopleBai peopleTamang peopleHoa peopleRai peopleLahu peopleLimbu peopleQiangJingpo peopleSherpaAkhaDungansPumiNu peopleMang peopleBamar (Burmans)

Sources

  1. National Bureau of Statistics of China. 2-1 全国各民族分年龄、性别的人口 (Tabulation on the 2010 Population Census of the PRC, table 2-1). https://www.stats.gov.cn/sj/pcsj/rkpc/6rp/html/A0201.htm
  2. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)