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  2. Pentaglot Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Pentaglot Dictionary [1] [2] (Chinese: 御製五體清文鑑, Yuzhi Wuti Qing Wenjian; the term 清文, Qingwen, "Qing language", was another name for the Manchu language in Chinese), also known as the Manchu Polyglot Dictionary, [3] [4] was a dictionary of major imperial languages compiled in the late Qianlong era of the Qing dynasty (also said to be compiled in 1794).

  3. Tibetic languages - Wikipedia

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    The Tibetic languages form a well-defined group of languages descending from Old Tibetan (7th to 9th centuries, [2] or to the 11th/12th centuries). According to Nicolas Tournadre, there are 50 Tibetic languages, which branch into more than 200 dialects, which could be grouped into eight dialect continua. [2]

  4. Classical Tibetan - Wikipedia

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    Classical Tibetan refers to the language of any text written in Tibetic after the Old Tibetan period. Though it extends from the 12th century until the modern day, [ 1 ] it particularly refers to the language of early canonical texts translated from other languages, especially Sanskrit .

  5. Tibetan script - Wikipedia

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    A text in Tibetan script suspected to be Sanskrit in content. From the personal artifact collection of Donald Weir. The Tibetan alphabet, when used to write other languages such as Balti, Chinese and Sanskrit, often has additional and/or modified graphemes taken from the basic Tibetan alphabet to represent different sounds.

  6. Old Tibetan - Wikipedia

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    Old Tibetan refers to the earliest attested form of Tibetan language, reflected in documents from the adoption of writing by the Tibetan Empire in the mid-7th century to the early 9th century. In 816 CE, during the reign of Tibetan King Sadnalegs , literary Tibetan underwent comprehensive standardization, resulting in Classical Tibetan .

  7. Help:IPA/Tibetan - Wikipedia

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    This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Tibetan on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Tibetan in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.

  8. Lhasa Tibetan - Wikipedia

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    An incomplete list of machine translation software or applications that can translate Tibetan language from/to a variety of other languages. 藏译通 – Zangyitong, a mobile app for translating between Tibetan and Chinese. [43] 青海弥陀翻译 – A Beta-version WeChat Mini Program that translate between Tibetan language to/from Chinese ...

  9. Bopomofo - Wikipedia

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    Language education in the Republic of China generally uses vertical writing, so most people learn it as a horizontal line, and use a horizontal form even in horizontal writing. In 2008, the Taiwanese Ministry of Education decided that the primary form should always be the horizontal form, but that the vertical form is accepted alternative. [ 17 ]