On Characters of Tibetan Writing System

Alphabetic characters, pronunciations, ISO codes, sorting sequences, picture symbols, and transliterations

Jiang Di, Ding Zhibin, Li Maoli

• Publisher: Paths Publishing Group
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781844644131
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Buddhism

The Tibetan language has a 1,300 year history and is widely disseminated and used. This book specifically focuses on Tibetan text symbols, including research on the characters, their structural features, and the application properties. Properties-such as origin, forms, pronunciation, function, structure, word frequency, code, sort, and transferring-are also discussed. Chapter topics include the following: An introduction to the origin of Tibetan; language and the features of its words; Tibetan words, forms, pronunciations, and characters (consonant characters and vowels symbols); The systematic classification of Tibetan textual symbols, showing that these symbols can be categorized into word symbols and non-word symbols; How non-native Tibetan speakers who study the Tibetan language like to use Latin letters to record Tibetan words, and how the authors propose a complete plan for Latin transferring of Tibetan characters; The sequencing of a Tibetan dictionary; The number of characters in the Tibetan; language, how to write down the Tibetan language, and how to pronounce the Lhasa dialect; The significance and function of Tibetan characters; The relevance of Tibetan picture symbols in Tibetan society, history, and culture; A dictionary for Tibetan characters, including their name, pronunciation, shape, origin, international and national code, as well as their relationship with Sanskrit. [Subject: Tibetan Studies, Asian Studies, Language, Linguistics]

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Acknowledgement
• Preface for English version
• Preface for Chinese version
• Contents
• Chapter 1: The Origin and Nature of Tibetan Writing System
• Chapter 2: Structural and Statistic Characteristics of Tibetan Writing System
• Chapter 3: Types of Tibetan Characters and Their Functions
• Chapter 4: Tibetan Latin Transliteration Scheme
• Chapter 5: A Sorting Order for Tibetan Characters and Its Algorithm
• Chapter 6: Tibetan Alphabetic Characters
• Chapter 7: Tibetan Non-alphabetic Characters
• Chapter 8: Tibetan Graphical Symbols
• Appendix I: A Bilingual Table of Tibetan Characters and Latin Letters
• Appendix II: Index of Commonly Used Tibetan Characters into Latin Letters
• Appendix III: A Contrasting Table between Tibetan and Sanskrit
• Appendix IV: English-Chinese Glossary of Terms
• Appendix V: Chinese-English Glossary of Terms
• English References
• Chinese References
• Tibetan References
• About the Author
• About the Translators
• Copyright