Author: Tashi
Publisher: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives
Year: 2001
Language: multilingual
Pages: 184
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185102740
Description
This book presents the grammar rules as clearly as possible with a number of simple examples, so that it may be used by anyone who has no previous knowledge of spoken Tibetan. The English translations follow the Tibetan in order to help students understand both its meaning and form.
This book is written in a style which is completely different from the old traditional method. Moreover, it had been entirely based upon the modern colloquial grammatical rules, keeping in view the present requirements of the students. This method will truly benefit students and help them to learn both spoken and literary Tibetan.
A Basic Grammar of Modern Spoken Tibetan is written for those non-Tibetan who have a keen interest in learning the proper rules of spoken Tibetan grammar. This book is based on author's twelve years of experience in teaching Tibetan language at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala and one year teaching and studying in the U S A.
Contents
Introduction of Tibetan Alphabet
Thirty consonants with Romanization Transliteration
How to draw the thirty consonants in U-Chen
THE FOUR VOWELS
Names of the Vowel sings
Three Types of Superscribed or surmounting Letters
Four Types of Subjoined Letters
The Tibetanised Sanskrit Letters
& The Five Prefixes with Examples
The Ten Suffixes with Examples
The Two-Post-Suffixes with examples
Some of the Important note with examples
The Sentence
The Noun: Kinds of Nouns
The Verb
The Adjective
The Pronoun: Kinds of Pronouns
The Preposition
The Adverb: Kinds of Adverbs
Verb Complements or Different Tense Endings
Articles (a, An, The)
The Definite Article (The)
How to use the verb
How to use Tibetan Word
In Different ways with examples
Use of Tibetan Word with examples
Interrogative Particles with examples
Use of ing with examples
Use of Song with examples
Use of Shag with Examples
Genitives & Possessive with examples
Instrumentives with examples
Four Negative Particles with examples
Instrumentive with examples
Four Negative Particles with examples
Use of rang in different ways with different meanings examples
Verbal compounds which consist of a noun & verb
Use of khan with examples
Changing of the sounds with Effect of prefixes to the Root Letters with examples
How to convert a Noun Into a Verb with use of Verbalizers with Examples
How to use dang in different method & Meanings with examples
Use of pa, po, wa & pa with Different Nouns and Comparatives with examples
Use of ma ,mo with examples
Masculine & Feminine Gender with examples
Use of na with examples
Use of Tibetan Word with examples
Use of Tibetan Word with examples
Singular & Plural
The Infinitives
How the letter ba, is Pronounced wa
Opposites
Sounds of the suffixes Tibetan Word with the root letter & Vowl signs
How to Use Vertical Slashes (shad) with examples
A List of Verbs in the three tenses with imperative
Common Idioms
Letter Writing
Some of the Grammatical Rules, which are summarized on the chart