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Zhang-Zhung (Tibetan: ཞང་ཞུང Wylie: zhang zhung) is an extinct Tibeto-Burman language that was spoken in what is now western Tibet. The term ‘Zhang-zhung language’ has been used to refer to two different entities. One of these occurs occasionally in the scriptures of the Bön religion. The other ‘Old Zhang-zhung’ appears in a small number of documents preserved in Dunhuang. The language of these texts was identified as ‘Zhang-zhung’ by F. W.