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Tibetanisation

Tibetanisation noun: UK and Commonwealth standard spelling of Tibetanization.

Noun

Tibetanisation (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural) UK and Commonwealth standard spelling of Tibetanization.
    • Why then has Chou En-lai suddenly shown this possessive interest in three remote Kachin villages? Some Burmese writers suggest that this is the first step towards the "Tibetanisation of Burma."1956 December 29, Dorothy Woodman, “Three Burmese Villages”, in New Statesman and Nation, volume 52, number 1346, page 833
    • In the seventh and eighth centuries, a degree of Tibetanisation took place in Ladakh. This is shown by the fact that Chinese chronicles of those years refer to the areas east of Baltistan as Tibet; and Ladakh is what exists "east of Baltistan".1981, Siddiq Wahid, Ladakh: Between Earth and Sky, Lausanne: Edita, →ISBN, page 15

Questions about Tibetanisation

What does Tibetanisation mean?
Tibetanisation means UK and Commonwealth standard spelling of Tibetanization.
What part of speech is Tibetanisation?
Tibetanisation is a noun.

Words near Tibetanisation in the dictionary

  1. Tibetan sand foxes
  2. Tibetan script
  3. Tibetan Spaniel
  4. Tibetan Terrier
  5. Tibetan wolf
  6. Tibetanisation
  7. Tibetanise
  8. Tibetanised
  9. Tibetanises
  10. Tibetanising
  11. Tibetanist

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