THDL Simplified Phonetic Transcription
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The THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription of Standard Tibetan
(or THL Phonetic Transcription for short) is a system for the phonetic rendering of the Tibetan language
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It was created by David Germano and Nicolas Tournadre and was published on 2003-12-12. It is essentially a simplified form of the Tournadre Phonetic System, which is used by Tournadre in his Tibetan language textbooks.
THL (formerly THDL) stands for the "Tibetan and Himalayan Library" project which is hosted at the University of Virginia
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Standard Tibetan
Standard Tibetan is the most widely used spoken form of the Tibetan languages. It is based on the speech of Lhasa, an Ü-Tsang dialect belonging to the Central Tibetan languages. For this reason, Standard Tibetan is often called Central Tibetan...
(or THL Phonetic Transcription for short) is a system for the phonetic rendering of the Tibetan language
Tibetan language
The Tibetan languages are a cluster of mutually-unintelligible Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering the Indian subcontinent, including the Tibetan Plateau and the northern Indian subcontinent in Baltistan, Ladakh,...
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It was created by David Germano and Nicolas Tournadre and was published on 2003-12-12. It is essentially a simplified form of the Tournadre Phonetic System, which is used by Tournadre in his Tibetan language textbooks.
THL (formerly THDL) stands for the "Tibetan and Himalayan Library" project which is hosted at the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
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External links
- The Transliteration and Transcription of Tibetan (Tibetan & Himalayan Library)