Tibetan grammar / by H. A. Jas̈chke.

  • Heinrich August Jäschke
Date:
1883
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Credit: Tibetan grammar / by H. A. Jas̈chke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    its full shape, as better adapted to the form of that letter: thus, ^\ In speaking it is seldom heard except provincially, and in some instances in compound words after a vowel thus, \ Urgy&n, Urgyen, ancient name of the country of Lahore; dorje ,va)ra<‘. Ladakees often pronounce it =s:* sta ,horse‘ elsewhere ta. 7. Similar is the usage in those with a superadded (namely: the surds and sonants of the first four classes, the guttural nasal, and. ^}), which latter is often softly heard in WT, but entirely dropped else¬ where, except in the ease of which is spoken = in WT, but with a distinct aspiration = hla or liia in ET. 8. is superadded to the gutturals, dentals and labials with exception of the aspiratae, then and It is, in many cases, distinctly pronounced in Ladak, but dropped elsewhere/). 9. £T E E;' with any superadded letter lose the aspiration mentioned in § 2. 6 and sound — g, d, b, y, ds 10. §=’ often lose even the inherent i-sound in pronunciation and are spoken like ), s, z. *) This will he indicated in the following examples by including the s in parentheses, as (s)kom. Examples. kyir-kyir, round, x? ^ circular. j§' Kyi, dog. gyen-la, upwards. cug(s), U: cw, cattle. H]* kyu, hook. * ttyod, C: tiyo, you. Spr2f tug-po, rich. ' W: ped, C: ce, half. I
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