Synopsis
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]
About the Author
Dr. Jiang Di is professor and director of the Lab of Phonetics and Computational Linguistics of Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. As an expert in Tibetan language and computational linguistics, he also shares the vice-president of Chinese Linguistics Society of Minority Languages, a member of the council of Chinese Information Processing Society of China and a member of the National Standardization Technical Committee. He is the editor of the editorial board in Journal of Chinese Information Processing of Chinese Academy of Science and in Minority Languages of China of Chinese Academy of Social Science and etc. Granted as the guest Professor of Southwest University for Nationality and the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Shanghai Normal University, he focuses mainly on Sino-Tibetan linguistics, modern Tibetan grammar and computational linguistics, and has published works and articles widely on phonetics, morphology, syntax, historical linguistics, evolutionary linguistics, computational linguistics.
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