The Classical Tibetan Language
The Classical Tibetan Language

Author: Stephan V. Beyer

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1992-07-01

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 0791496694

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Among Asian languages, Tibetan is second only to Chinese in the depth of its historical record, with texts dating back as far as the eighth and ninth centuries, written in an alphabetic script that preserves the contemporaneous phonological features of the language. The Classical Tibetan Language is the first comprehensive description of the Tibetan language and is distinctive in that it treats the classical Tibetan language on its own terms rather than by means of descriptive categories appropriate to other languages, as has traditionally been the case. Beyer presents the language as a medium of literary expression with great range, power, subtlety, and humor, not as an abstract object. He also deals comprehensively with a wide variety of linguistic phenomena as they are actually encountered in the classical texts, with numerous examples of idioms, common locutions, translation devices, neologisms, and dialectal variations.

The Tibetan History Reader
The Tibetan History Reader

Author: Gray Tuttle

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2013-04-02

Total Pages: 750

ISBN-13: 0231144695

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Answering a critical need for an accurate, in-depth history of Tibet, this single-volume resource reproduces essential, hard-to-find essays from the past fifty years of Tibetan studies. Covering the social, cultural, and political development of Tibet from the seventh century to the modern period, the volume is organized chronologically and regionally to complement courses in Asian and religious studies and world civilizations. Beginning with Tibet's emergence as a regional power and concluding with its profound contemporary transformations, this anthology offers both a general and ..

A Tibetan-English Dictionary
A Tibetan-English Dictionary

Author: Heinrich August Jäschke

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 706

ISBN-13: 9788120830936

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mutual interdependance. The second half of the book discusses, amongst

Compounds and Compounding in Old Tibetan. Vol. 1
Compounds and Compounding in Old Tibetan. Vol. 1

Author: Joanna Bialek

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2018-08-26

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 3923776594

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Old Tibetan documents are the oldest extant monuments of the Tibetan language. Their exploration, although successfully flourishing in the last two decades, has been considerably impeded by often unintelligible and obsolete vocabulary that was bound to the particular cultural and political context of the Tibetan Empire that collapsed in the 840s CE. The present publication aims at clarifying a part of this vocabulary by examining nearly 400 Old Tibetan compounds. In Part I an attempt has been undertaken to define a compound and to provide the first linguistic classification of Old Tibetan compounds. Part II concentrates on a lexicological analysis of the compounds and strives to explain their etymology, word-formation, and usage in Old Tibetan. Contents of Volume 1: Introduction, Indices, References, Part I: Compounding in Old Tibetan, Part II: Old Tibetan Compounds. Lexicological Analysis. Lexemes 1-119

Studies in the Grammatical Tradition in Tibet
Studies in the Grammatical Tradition in Tibet

Author: Roy Andrew Miller

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1976-01-01

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 9027281556

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This volume reprints — with additions and corrections — seven papers originally published 1962–1973, on the indigenous grammars of Tibet and their linguistic tradition. Two ancient treatises commonly attributed to “Thon-mi Sambhoṭa” are studied extensively, as well as extracts from many other Tibetan texts, with translations, commentaries, and detailed bibliographical data, covering a wide range of linguistic doctrines, from the early 11th to the beginning of the 20th century. The final article incorporates a complete grammatical sketch of Classical Tibetan; this, together with the comprehensive indexes of Tibetan and Indic grammatical and technical terms, proper names, titles, etc., will facilitate the use of the volume as a basic reference-source for all future work on the Tibetan grammarians.

Himalayan Languages and Linguistics
Himalayan Languages and Linguistics

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-04-21

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9004216537

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Himalayan Languages and Linguistics gathers together nine outstanding and original contributions on the Tibeto-Burman and Indo-Aryan languages of this important and culturally diverse mountainous area. Filling a marked gap in our understanding of the languages of this underdocumented region, the collection offers a snapshot of the state of the field of Himalayan language research and linguistic comparison. Drawing on primary fieldwork in China, India, Nepal and Pakistan, as well as on comparative sources, the new analyses outlined in these contributions will interest a readership of linguists, philologists, anthropologists, historians, lexicographers and specialists in the languages and cultures of Inner and South Asia. Contributions cover topics as diverse as linguistic palaeontology, orthographical standardisation, dialectology, phonology, morphology, semantics and syntax.

Tibetan Language, Literature and Grammar
Tibetan Language, Literature and Grammar

Author: Sangye Tandar Naga

Publisher: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9380359713

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This book has been compiled to familarise and acquaint English readers with the Tibetan words and phrases that are found in Tibetan characters or transliterations while reading Tibetan manuscripts. Also this work is intended to help the Tibetans and non-Tibetans who will study Tibetan Grammar. This book is divided into 3 parts, The first part introduces the basic structures of Tibetan language consisting of vowels, consonants, superscribed and subscribed letters and prefixes and suffixes. The second part consists of a collection of articles on Tibetan literature published in the Tibet Journal Series. The third part consists of translations of the three treatises on Tibetan Grammar.