Amdo Tibetan
The Amdolese language is the Tibetic language spoken by the majority of Amdolese, mainly in Qinghai and some parts of Sichuan and Gansu.
Amdolese is one of the four main spoken Tibetic languages, the other three being Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan and Ladakhi. These four related languages share a common written script but their spoken pronunciations, vocabularies and grammars are different. These differences may have emerged due to geographical isolation of the regions of Tibet. Unlike Khams and Standard Tibetan, Amdolese language is not a tonal language. It retains many word-initial consonant clusters that have been lost in Central Tibetan.Dialects are:
- North Kokonor
- West Kokonor,
- Southeast Kokonor
- Labrang
- Golok
- Ngapa
- Kandze
Bradley includes Thewo and Choni as close to Amdo if not actually Amdo dialects.
Hua contains word lists of the Xiahe County 夏河, Tongren County 同仁, Xunhua County 循化, Hualong County 化隆, Hongyuan County 红原, and Tianjun County 天峻 dialects of Amdo Tibetan in Gansu and Qinghai provinces.Media
;Inside China
;Diaspora
- Radio Free Asia broadcasts in three Tibetan languages: Standard Tibetan, Khams language and Amdolese language.
