Modern Literary Tibetan

Modern Literary Tibetan
Author: Melvyn C. Goldstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1973
Genre: Tibetan language
ISBN:

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Manual of Standard Tibetan

Manual of Standard Tibetan
Author: Nicolas Tournadre
Publisher: Snow Lion
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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The Manual of Standard Tibetan presents the everyday speech of Lhasa as it is currently used in Tibet and among the Tibetan diaspora. It not only places the language in its natural context but also highlights along the way key aspects of Tibetan civilization and Vajrayana Buddhism. The Manual, which consists of forty-one lessons, is illustrated with many drawings and photographs and also includes two informative political and linguistic maps of Tibet. Two CDs provide an essential oral complement to the manual. A detailed introduction presents a linguistic overview of spoken and written Tibetan.

Human Ecology of Sikkim

Human Ecology of Sikkim
Author: Kuldip Singh Gulia
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2005
Genre: Ethnobotany
ISBN: 9788178353258

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A historic view on the human ecology of sikkim; the culture and structure of local ecosystems, human ecosystems, various richness of human ecosystems, monasteries and the monastic architecture, customs and their eco-biological significances, spirit possession, shamans and Jhakis, ethno-botany and adaptations. A complete guide to the tourist industry policy makers and scholars.

The Classical Tibetan Language

The Classical Tibetan Language
Author: Stephan V. Beyer
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 534
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780791410998

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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.

English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan

English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan
Author: Melvyn C. Goldstein
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 514
Release: 1984
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0520051572

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This English-Tibetan dictionary contains 16,000 main entries and subentries, a total of 45,000 lexical items. The dictionary is primarily oriented to spoken communication and was designed to be semantically sensitive, bridging the semantic gap between Tibetan and English. Tibetan terms corresponding to submeanings of English subterms are specified, and each entry in the dictionary includes both the Tibetan orthography and a phonemic notation to indicate pronunciation. Grammatical features are noted, and all examples of usage are presented with the romanization of the Tibetan and phonemic notation of the spoken forms. An introductory essay outlines the main features of Tibetan grammar. (MSE)

Evidential Systems of Tibetan Languages

Evidential Systems of Tibetan Languages
Author: Lauren Gawne
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2017-04-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110473747

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This edited volume brings together work on the evidential systems of Tibetan languages. This includes diachronic research, synchronic description of systems in individual Tibetan varieties and papers addressing broader theoretical or typological questions. Evidentiality in Tibetan languages interacts with other features of modality, interactional context and speaker knowledge states in ways that provide important perspectives for typologists and our general understanding of evidential systems. This book provides the first sustained attempt to capture this complexity and diversity from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective.