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འགྲོ་ 'gro བ་ ba མིའི་ mi'i རིགས་ rigs རྒྱུད་ rgyud ཡོངས་ yongs ལ་ la སྐྱེས་ skyes ཙམ་ tsam ཉིད་ nyid ནས་ nas ཆེ་ che མཐོངས་ mthongs དང༌། dang ཐོབ་ thob ཐངགི་ thangagi རང་ rang དབང་ dbang འདྲ་ 'dra མཉམ་ mnyam དུ་ du ...
Tibetan grammar describes the morphology, syntax and other grammatical features of Lhasa Tibetan, a Sino-Tibetan language. Lhasa Tibetan is typologically an ergative–absolutive language. Nouns are generally unmarked for grammatical number, but are marked for case. Adjectives are never marked and appear after the noun. Demonstratives also come ...
Uchen (Tibetan: དབུ་ཅན་, Wylie: dbu-can; IPA:; variant spellings include ucen, u-cen, u-chen, ucan, u-can, uchan, u-chan, and ucän) is the upright, block style of the Tibetan script. The name means "with a head", and is the style of the script used for printing and for formal manuscripts.
Tibetology (Tibetan: བོད་རིག་པ།, Wylie: bod-rig-pa) refers to the study of things related to Tibet, including its history, religion, language, culture, politics and the collection of Tibetan articles of historical, cultural and religious significance. [1]
In the Tibetan script, the syllables are written from left to right. Syllables are separated by a tsek (་); since many Tibetan words are monosyllabic, this mark often functions almost as a space. Spaces are not used to divide words. [17] The Tibetan alphabet has thirty basic letters, sometimes known as "radicals", for consonants. [10]
A variety of different styles of calligraphy exist in Tibet: The Uchen (དབུ་ཅན།, "headed"; also transliterated as uchan or dbu-can) style of the Tibetan script is marked by heavy horizontal lines and tapering vertical lines, and is the most common script for writing in the Tibetan language, and also appears in printed form because of its exceptional clarity.
Tibetan Muslims, also known as the Khache (Tibetan: ཁ་ཆེ་, lit. ' Kashmiris '), are Tibetans who adhere to Islam. [2] [4] Many are descendants of Kashmiris, Ladakhis, and Nepalis who arrived in Tibet in the 14th to 17th centuries. [5] There are approximately 5,000 Tibetan Muslims living in China, [1] over 1,500 in India, [2] and 300 ...
PEF Survey of Western Palestine Key Map. The glossary of Arabic toponyms gives translations of Arabic terms commonly found as components in Arabic toponyms.A significant number of them were put together during the PEF Survey of Palestine carried out in the second half of the 19th century.