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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.
Heinrich August Jäschke of the Moravian mission which was established in Ladakh in 1857, [8] Tibetan Grammar and A Tibetan–English Dictionary. At St Petersburg, Isaac Jacob Schmidt published his Grammatik der tibetischen Sprache in 1839 and his Tibetisch-deutsches Wörterbuch in 1841. His access to Mongolian sources had enabled him to enrich ...
The SASM/GNC/SRC romanization of Standard Tibetan, commonly known as Tibetan pinyin or ZWPY (Chinese: 藏文 拼音; pinyin: Zàngwén Pīnyīn), is the official transcription system for the Tibetan language in China. [1] It is based on the pronunciation used by China National Radio's Tibetan Radio, [1] which is based on the Lhasa dialect.
Central Tibetan, also known as Dbus, Ü or Ü-Tsang, is the most widely spoken Tibetic language and the basis of Standard Tibetan.. Dbus and Ü are forms of the same name.Dbus is a transliteration of the name in Tibetan script, དབུས་, whereas Ü is the pronunciation of the same in Lhasa dialect, (or [y˧˥˧ʔ]).
Tashi delek (Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས, Wylie: bkra shis bde legs, Tibetan pronunciation: [tʂáɕi tèle]) is a Tibetan expression used to greet, congratulate or wish someone good luck. It is also used in Bhutan and Northeast India in the same way.
Wylie transliteration is a method for transliterating Tibetan script using only the letters available on a typical English-language typewriter.The system is named for the American scholar Turrell V. Wylie, who created the system and published it in a 1959 Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies article. [1]
Amdo Tibetan (Tibetan script: ཨ་མདོའི་སྐད་, Wylie: A-mdo’i skad, Lhasa dialect: [ámtokɛ́ʔ]; also called Am kä) is the Tibetic language spoken in Amdo (now mostly in Qinghai, some in Ngawa and Gannan). It has two varieties, the farmer dialects and the nomad dialects.
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]