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Zhang-Zhung language
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<p>Zhangzhung (<a href="/facts/Tibetan_script/d6SoCnze">Tibetan</a>: ཞང་ཞུང་, <a href="/facts/Wylie_transliteration/LrLFPazB">Wylie</a>: <i>zhang zhung</i>) is an <a href="/facts/Extinct_language/ayaLa4DU">extinct</a> <a href="/facts/Sino-Tibetan_languages/kfdM7pTx">Sino-Tibetan language</a> that was spoken in <a href="/facts/Zhangzhung/Sm93xPUc">Zhangzhung</a> in what is now western <a href="/facts/Tibet/NQChzGo9">Tibet</a>. It is attested in a bilingual text called <i>A Cavern of Treasures</i> (<i>mDzod phug</i>) and several shorter texts. </p><p>A small number of documents preserved in <a href="/facts/Dunhuang_manuscripts/uSB4TGwD">Dunhuang</a> contain an undeciphered language that has been called Old Zhangzhung, but the identification is controversial. </p>