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Tibetan Sentences from Heart of Tibetan Language

1 ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་ཞུ་གི་ཡོད། I thank you. 2 ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ། བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ། Thank you, so kind of you! 3 ཨོ། དགོངས་དག ལམ་ཀ་གཏང་རོགས་གནང་། Oh, I’m sorry, please let me pass! 4 རྒྱ་གར་ལ་ཕྱག་ཕེབས་གནང་བྱུང་། Welcome to India! 5 གྲོགས་པོ་ལགས། བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། Hello, (dear) friend! 6 རྒན་ལགས། སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། Good morning, (dear) teacher! 7 སྐུ་གཞོགས་ལགས། ཞོགས་པ་བདེ་ལེགས། Good morning, (dear) sir! 8 ཨ་ཅག་ལགས། ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས། Good afternoon, […]


TLAN 103 Colloquial Tibetan I

Lesson 2 Before starting to form simple sentences in Tibetan, it is necessary to know this important feature of the spoken Tibetan language. Although there are first, second and third person (just like “I”, “you” and “he/she/it” in English), the specific forms of Tibetan verbs are used according to the two categories of self and […]


Tibetan Glossary

Glossaryཀཀ་ཁ་ alphabetཀ་ཁོལ་pillar-hole¶ Ka chigs čhen mo, title of a historiographical work ¶¶¶¶55′55′′ (PN) Ka-bźi-gduń-brgyad-ma(N) all, everyone; “(A) allཀུན་མཁྱེན་ the Omniscient One(PN) Kun-dgay-bo (Skt. Ananda)ཀུན་དགའ་ར་བ་copse5 all around; completely; ‘through perfectly; ‘everywhereཀུན་ནས་དགའ་བ་surpassingly lovely(PN) Ko-sa-la (Skt. Kośala)(Intrj) Oh! Alas!ཀྱི་ཧུད་ (Intrj) Oh!ཀྱེ་ (Intrj) Oh! Alas!ཀྱེ་མ་(Intrj) Oh! Alas!ཀླད་ཀོར་zeroཀླུ་རྒྱལ་ (PN) Klu-rgyal(PN) Klu-brgyad-mkhanཀླུ་དབང་ lord of serpentsཀླུང་ river valley300Glossaryཀློག་ v2 བཀླགས་ v3 བཀླག་ […]


Classical Tibetan

Tibetan script History According to the indigenous Tibetan tradition, Tibetan script was invented by Thon- mi Sambhoța during the lifetime of the bean po Khri Sron-rcan (?-649). Whereas the identity of the script inventor (if there was indeed only one person) remains uncertain, it is beyond doubt that the Tibetan script was invented between the […]


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