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Grammar of the Tibetan Language - Literary and Colloquial

1912

With copious Illustrations and treating fully of Spelling Pronuciation and the Construction of the Verb and including Appendices of the various forms of the Verb. [...] This is the dialect in which as the result of centuries of develoing Laindie culture the phonetic values of Tibetan are found to have undergone a greater degree of change from those of the original speech than any of the other dialects. [...] The difficulties confronting the student of Tibetan are considerably enhanced by the fact that in addition to the Literary Language and the Modern Colloquial it also possesses a totally different vocabulary the employment of which is de rigueur when one is conversing or correponding with a person of quality. [...] As a matter of fact the only real verb in Tibetan is the verb To be whether in the form of Zr`6 1. Yin-pa or ZAT57.1' YO'pa and the beginner is advised to master it at as early a stage as possible in the course of his studies. [...] the first or inner principle of-the universe and the Psychical Atman or inner principle of individual Man are essentially one and the same our hope of spirtual rebirth is assured in and by the fact of the eternal subsistence of Brahman and the ceaselessness of the kosmic process above referred to—human re-incarnation being a microcosmic effect or aspect of the Macrocosmic law.
language linguistics
Pages
411
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.147521
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
iii-xxi Herbert Hannah view
Chapter I. Preliminary
1-94 Herbert Hannah view
Chapter II. Etymology
95-307 Herbert Hannah view
Chapter III. Syntax
308-309 Herbert Hannah view
Appendix
310-392 Herbert Hannah view

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