Source? Published figure for Tibet from 2000 5th population census is 32.5% illiteracy rate: http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjsj/tjgb/rkpcgb/dfrkpcgb/200203/t20020331_30336.html …https://twitter.com/AndrewM_Fischer/status/1050794810850897920 …
Wow. When I was there what struck me is that young kids were sometimes using Chinese numerals in their Tibetan sentences, in the same way multilingual people mix up languages mid-sentence. But something about numerals...
