{"product_id":"on-characters-of-tibetan-writing-jiang-di-9781844644124","title":"On Characters of Tibetan Writing System: Alphabetic Characters, Pronunciations, ISO Codes, Sorting Sequences, Picture Symbols, and Transliterations","description":"The Tibetan language has a 1,300 year history and is widely disseminated and used. This book specifically focuses on Tibetan text symbols, including research on the characters, their structural features, and the application properties. Properties-such as origin, forms, pronunciation, function, structure, word frequency, code, sort, and transferring-are also discussed. Chapter topics include the following: An introduction to the origin of Tibetan; language and the features of its words; Tibetan words, forms, pronunciations, and characters (consonant characters and vowels symbols); The systematic classification of Tibetan textual symbols, showing that these symbols can be categorized into word symbols and non-word symbols; How non-native Tibetan speakers who study the Tibetan language like to use Latin letters to record Tibetan words, and how the authors propose a complete plan for Latin transferring of Tibetan characters; The sequencing of a Tibetan dictionary; The number of characters in the Tibetan; language, how to write down the Tibetan language, and how to pronounce the Lhasa dialect; The significance and function of Tibetan characters; The relevance of Tibetan picture symbols in Tibetan society, history, and culture; A dictionary for Tibetan characters, including their name, pronunciation, shape, origin, international and national code, as well as their relationship with Sanskrit. [Subject: Tibetan Studies, Asian Studies, Language, Linguistics]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jiang Di\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 184464412X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781844644124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Paths Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Jiang Di","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48587925061887,"sku":"9781844644124","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-characters-of-tibetan-writing-jiang-di-9781844644124","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}