Locale Bo Cn

Reference data for the Tibetan (China) locale — endonym བོད་སྐད་ (ཀྲུང་གོ), written in the Tibetan script, left-to-right (LTR).

Identifiers

• BCP 47 tag: bo-CN
• ISO 639-1: bo
• ISO 639-3: bod
• Script: Tibt (Tibetan)
• Region: CN (China)
• Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)

Speakers (approximate)

• L1 (native): 5,000,000
• L2 (additional): 1,000,000
• L1+L2 (total): 6,000,000

Base locale

This is a regional variant of Locale Bo 001 (Tibetan), the base/macro locale for this language.

Pluralization

CLDR plural categories for this locale: other (1 form).

• other — everything else (e.g. 0~15, 100, 1000, 10000, …)

See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.

Translating into this locale

Apply Locale Bo 001 with Tibetan conventions in China.

• Context: Tibetan is used in the Tibet Autonomous Region and in Tibetan areas of Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, and Yunnan. Official terms may be coined by calque from Chinese in government documents; follow the target publisher's terminology.
• Dialects: the Lhasa-based standard is the model for formal speech; Amdo and Kham readers use the same written standard but speak different varieties.
• Formats: dates are often written in the Gregorian calendar and the Tibetan calendar for cultural events; currency yuan (¥); Arabic digits in UI.

Common pitfalls

• Using a spoken-dialect spelling in formal text.
• Writing Tibetan in Chinese punctuation instead of the shad.
• The general pitfalls in Locale Bo 001 also apply.

Learn more

• Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
• Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
• Unicode CLDR locale data for bo-CN (https://cldr.unicode.org)