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It sounds like Lhasa Tibetan through spoken particles, the everyday term ཁ་ལག, and honorific verbs such as གསོལ and ཕེབས.

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How many yuan is this?

འདི་སྒོར་མོ་ག་ཚོད་རེད།

The colloquial interrogative ག་ཚོད and currency noun སྒོར་མོ fit everyday China-Tibet market speech; the latter is used for yuan.

Have you eaten?

ཁ་ལག་གསོལ་སོང་ངམ།

ཁ་ལག is the Lhasa spoken word for a meal, while གསོལ is the honorific counterpart of ཟ་, used when addressing an elder or guest.

Please come in.

ནང་ལ་ཕེབས་དང་།

ཕེབས is the honorific motion verb, and the sentence-final དང softens the imperative in a spoken invitation.

Where is the bus stop?

འགྲུལ་འཁོར་འབབ་ཚུགས་གང་ན་ཡོད།

གང་ན་ཡོད་ is the everyday Standard Tibetan location question construction, asking where something is.

My older brother is at home.

ངའི་གཅེན་པོ་ཁྱིམ་ན་ཡོད།

གཅེན་པོ means older brother, while ན་ཡོད་ marks someone’s current location in a natural spoken form.

I have to go to work tomorrow.

སང་ཉིན་ང་ལས་ཀར་འགྲོ་དགོས།

ལས་ཀ means work or one’s job, and འགྲོ་དགོས་ expresses obligation in everyday Standard Tibetan.

It is cold today.

དེ་རིང་གྲང་མོ་འདུག།

འདུག་ is the direct-perception copula commonly used in Lhasa speech for an immediately observed condition such as the weather.

I am really tired today.

དེ་རིང་ང་དངོས་གནས་ཐང་ཆད་སོང་།

ཐང་ཆད་ means exhausted or worn out, and སོང་ signals a newly reached state in conversational Standard Tibetan.

Notes like these come with every AIRTranslate translation, so you learn why locals phrase it that way as you go.

Standard Tibetan (Lhasa); honorific registers used correctly.

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