Modern Tibetan Language - Volume 1

Modern Tibetan Language - Volume 1

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Author: Losang Thonden
Publisher: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives
Year: 2010
Language: multilingual
Pages: 232
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8186470395

Description

Modern Tibetan Language, Volume I, is a product of author’s long experience of teaching Tibetan language and has been critically and thoroughly reviewed by both Tibetan and foreign scholars.

Beginning with the alphabet, vowels and combination letters with stack letters, it presents the basic structure of Tibetan language accompanied by exercises after each lesson.

This revised edition is being hailed as one of the best text-books on Tibetan language. The lessons of this book are available on audio cassettes in author’s original voice and accent. It can be purchased separately.

Contents

PUBLISHER’S NOTE

AUTHOR’S NOTE

THE PHONETIC SYMBOLS

PUNCTUATION MARKS

ABBREVIATIONS

Introduction of Tibetan Alphabet
The Four Vowels
The Precise Pronunciation Chart of the Vowels
The Tibetanised Sanskrit Letters
Ten Consonants which Change their sound when they are prefixed and superscribed
Three Supersribed Letters
Four Subjoined Letters
The Prefix, suffix & Post-Suffix
The Root Letter Indentification
Pronouns
Linking Verbs with the Meaning To Be
Four Negatives
Verb to be Indicating Existence
Seven Dative-Locatives
Five Genitives
Verb Complement in three tenses
Use of Adjectives & Demonstrative Pronouns
Prepositions
New Vocabulary
Conjunctive Particle
Interrogatives
Infinitive Particle
Intentional & Unintentional Verbs
Cardinal Numbers
Answers to the Exercises