The Tibetan is a Langue spoken by more than six million speakers to the Tibet and other surrounding areas, in Central Asia: in the Autonomous region of the Tibet, with the Qinghai, the Gansu, the Sichuan and the Yunnan (Popular republic of China), like with the Ladakh, the Pakistani Baltistan, the Sikkim, the Bhutan and in the north of the Nepal.
Introduction
The Tibetan (decides in Tibetan “peugué” for spoken Tibetan or “peuyi” for written Tibetan, བོད ་ ཡིག Translittération Wylie: bod yig) is a language belonging to the family of the languages Tibéto-Burmese are.The Tibetan subdivides himself in a great number of dialects. Among those, the dialect of Lhassa, which is used as Lingua franca among the Tibetans, is a Langue with tons. The Dzongkha, another dialect Tibetan, is the official language of the Bhutan. However, some other dialects, like those of the Amdo and the Ladakh, do not have tons and have complicated initial groups of consonants, which more reflect those which are marked in the Orthographe.
The Tibetan is noted by means of a Alphasyllabaire created at the 7th century by Thonmi Sambhota, a Minister for the king Srong-btsan sgam-Po, starting from the Devanāgarī. The writing Tibetan includes/understands thirty letters which combine with four signs diacritic S being used to note the Voyelle S I , U , E , O . To that are added three superscribed consonants, who allow to change tone or to remove an aspiration, and 4 consonants subscribed to note palatals or rétroflexes. Among the languages Tibéto-Burmese be, the Tibetan one of is in the past attested, with the Tangoute, the Burmese , the Néware and the Meitei.
The founder of the studies Tibetans in Europe is the Hungarian scientist Alexandre Csoma de Körös, author of a dictionary and a grammar of the traditional Tibetan. Its work was continued by the first French tibetologist, Philippe-Edouard Foucaux (1811 - 1894).
Traditional language of Buddhism of High-Asia, the Tibetan conveys since the 8th century a rich person literature.
Alphasyllabaire
Under Unicode, the characters Tibetans are coded of 0F00 with 0F7F. Here the alphasyllabaire Tibetan, in dbu edge (block letters), dbu med (cursive writing) and in Wylie transliteration.
Lexicon
Cardinals
The table below gives the cardinal numbers in Burmese Tibetan, , Cantonese, Mandarin, and their translation in French:
See too
Internal bonds
- Linguistic
- Dictionary of the languages
- Tibetan (Wiktionnaire)
External bonds
- First names Tibetans Translation in line of first names
- a text Tibetan of Dunhuang with translation
- http://www.omniglot.com/writing/tibetan.htm
- http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/tibetan.html
- Font
Simple: Tibetan language
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