Classical Tibetan

Classical Tibetan (Tibetan: ཆོས་སྐད།, Wylie: chos skad, Lhasa Tibetan pronunciation in IPA: /t͡ɕʰøː˥˥.kɛː˥˨/, literally "doctrine language" or "religious language"), sometimes called Chöke in Bhutan, is a liturgical language of Tibetan Buddhism that dates from the 9th century. It particularly refers to the language of early canonical texts translated from other languages, especially Sanskrit. It is one of the handful of 'living' classical languages along with Arabic, Ge'ez, and New Persian, though it meaningfully differs from Modern Standard Tibetan.