Author: Pema Chhinjor
Publisher: Paljor Publications
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 196
ISBN/UPC (if available): 818623019X
Description
The book is one of the best-selling guide intended for the serious students of Tibetan language. The Author has compiled the best of the methods he had used during his two decades of teaching experiences at the Department of Central Asian Studies, Panjab University at Chandigarh.
Careful attempt has been made to approach Tibetan language through English in a very simple and natural way. Practical difficulties are dealt step to step so that students can apeak and write the language correctly. Basic Structure of Tibetan grammer are explained methodically through well laid exercises. The exercises contain sentences of as practical and natural as is possible within the limitation of the concurrent vocabulary.
Contents
The script and pronunciation
The Romanized Equivalents
The Vowels
The Vowels with Consonants
The Ten Suffix Letters
Writing and Punctuation
Syntax
How to learn to speak Tibetan Well
The five Prefix Letters
The two Secondary Suffix Letters
The Personal Pronouns
The Reflexive Pronouns
The Auxiliary Verbs
The Affirmative
The Negative
The Interrogative
The Compound Consonants
The Revision of Lessons 1-14
The Demonstrative Pronouns
The Interrogative Pronouns
The Noun
The Nouns Gender
The Plural Number
Declension of the personal pronouns
The Adjective
The comparison of Adjective
The Verb
The Tenses
The Honorific Language
Notes on Particles
Conjunction
The Concluding Words
The Particles expressive of ownership
The Numerals
The Cardinal
The Cardinal Points
The months of the Year
The Days of the Week
The time of the day
The Cardinal numbers
The conversational Sentences
The Exercises
The Conversational Sentences Translation
The Tibetan-English Vocabulary
The English-Tibetan Vocabulary