Academic dissertation. — University of Helsinki (with Sikkim University). — Helsinki, 2019. — 645 p. This thesis is the descriptive grammar of Denjongke, or Sikkimese Bhutia (also known as Lhoke or Sikkimese) (ISO 639-3 sip), an underdescribed and endangered Tibeto-Burman, Tibetic language spoken in the Indian state of Sikkim. The study is based on original fieldwork conducted...
Tibet People's Press, 2013. — 242 p. Through a stimulating selection of Tibetan folk stories,folklore, general knowledge and wisdom literature, the Language Pathways series introduces the student to a range of Tibetan literary genres.The twenty-six readings have been designed to gradually introduce the reader to literary Tibetan while also providing many insights into Tibetan...
Tibet People's Press, 2012. — 246 p. Through a stimulating selection of Tibetan folk stories, folklore, general knowledge and wisdom literature the Language Pathways series introduces the student to a range of Tibetan literary genres. The twenty-six readings have been designed to gradually introduce the reader to literary Tibetan while also providing many insights into Tibetan...
Tibet People's Press, 2014. — 256 p. Through a stimulating selection of folk stories, folklore,general knowledge and wisdom literature, the Language Pathways series introduces the student to a range of Tibetan literary genres.The twenty-seven readings have been designed to introduce the reader to literary Tibetan while also providing many insights into Tibetan culture.
Calcutta: Inspector General of Chinese imperial maritime customs, 1903. — 247 p. Buying a turquoise. Paying a visit. Miscellaneous Exercise. Salutations. Miscellaneous Exercise. English-Tibetan vocabulary.
Paljor Publications, 2001. — 250 p. — (Library of Tibetan Works and Archives). Tibetan conversational drills compiled from the materials of an intensive class in the central Tibetan dialect.
Self-published, 2011. — 109 p. This course covers the main elements of classical Tibetan grammar with the aim of bringing the students to the stage where they have sufficient knowledge to continue learning the language by reading and translating basic texts of the Buddhist literature. The emphasis is placed on integrating the most important points of grammar in a short period of...
Overseas Missionary Fellowship International, 2007. — 170 p. Tibetan-English primer in the Kham Dialect. The study of Tibetan as a second language, which begins the first steps in mastering the basic Kham vocabulary.
Revised edition. — Aris and Phillips, 1993. — 198 p. Classical Tibetan, with origins dating to the ninth century, is the script found in a huge corpus of surviving Tibetan texts, mostly of Buddhist content; native Tibetans still employ this language, to this day when writing on religious, medical or historical subjects. The aim of this book is to provide a rapid introduction to...
[New Delhi] : Bod-kyi Gtsug-lag Zhib-dpyod-khang, 2010. — 464 p. — ISBN: 9788189165918. A Tibetan grammar written in Tibetan. The result of Thupten Jinpa's study on how to modernize the grammar of literary and classical Tibetan has been published the Institute in December, 2010, in New Delhi. Entitled Bod kyi brda sprod gsar bsgrigs smra sgo'i lde mig (Modern Tibetan Grammar:...
Prosodic analysis and Asian linguistics: to honour R. K. Sprigg. — Pacific Linguistics. — 1988. — p. 115-136. In the present article we will point out a hitherto undescribed phonological opposition in Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan, and attempt to trace its origin by comparison with the forms of Classical Tibetan. The contrast between high and low register words in...
Bulletin of Tibetology. — 11. 1. — p. 11-15. In this paper I have concentrated on the phonetic aspects of some of the dialects, on their pronunciation features; but I should not wish to give the impression that dialect comparison consists of phonetic study only.
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 17. — p. 133-153. The purpose of this article is to re-examine some of the ways in which tone has been stated in certain of the spoken Tibetan dialects, and to apply to the Nominal Phrase in one of them, Lhasa Tibetan (LT), the suggestion that such statements can be more profitably associated not with the syllable, as...