Author: Tsetan Chonjore
Publisher: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives
Year: 2003
Language: multilingual
Pages: 340
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8186470301
Description
Colloquial Tibetan is the result of the author’s experience as a Tibetan language teacher to foreign students for 18 long years. It covers a detailed grammatical analysis of the Lhasa colloquial and clarifies the similarities and differences between literary and Lhasa colloquial grammar.
In a simple fashion, the author follows a contextual teaching method introducing unique forms such as the personal / impersonal perspective, the evidential categories carried by verbs and conjugations, the time-based aspect of the language etc.
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION
Homage to the Great Scholar Thu mi Sam Bhota
Overview
Text Format
Key of Symbols
Key of Linguistic terms
PHONETIC INTRODUCTION
The Tibetan Syllabic Letters
Places and Manner of Articulation
Phonetic Qualities of the Tibetan letters according to English Phonology
Pronunciation: Practice Drill
The Seven Elements of Word Formation
How to Identify the Root Letter
Change of Pronunciation with Superjoined Letters
Changes of Pronunciation with Subjoined Letters
Change of Pronunciation with the Five Prefixes
Change of Pronunciation with the Ten Suffixes
The two Post-Suffixes:
Reading Exercises
Vowel Harmony (External Sandhi)
The Natural Classes of the Letters
Categories of Tibetan Nouns
HOW TO WRITE TIBETAN LETTERS
LESSON 1
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Vocabulary for Lesson 1
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LESSON 2
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LESSON 3
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Vocabulary for Lesson 15
LESSON 15
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Answers to the Exercises Index of Charts