Tibetan Grammar - Formation of the Tibetan Syllable
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| Articles on Tibetan Grammar |
| 1. Introduction |
| 2. Formation of the Tibetan Syllable |
| 3. Formation of the Tibetan Word |
| 4. First case: ming tsam |
| 5. agentive particle |
| 6. Connective Particle |
| 7. La don particles |
| 8. La don particles—Notes |
| 9. Originative case |
| 10. Verbs |
| 11. Verbs—Notes |
| 12. Syntactic particles |
by Stefan J. E.
Formation of the Tibetan syllable
Overview
Tibetan names of the components of a syllable
| དབྱངས་༼ཨི་ཨེ་ཨོ་༽ vowel (i, e, o) | ||||
| མགོ་ཡིག་ superscribed letter | ||||
| སྔོན་འཇུག་ prefix letter |
མིང་གཞི་ root letter |
རྗེས་འཇུག་ postfix letter |
ཡང་འཇུག་ second postfix letter |
ཚེག་ dot |
| འདོགས་ཡིག་ subscribed letter | ||||
| དབྱངས་༼ཨུ་༽ vowel (u) |
Letters that are used for the different components of a syllable
| Position | Letter |
| Root letter, མིང་གཞི་ | the whole alphabet except for the vowels i, u, e, o which need ཨ་ or འ་ as a "vowel-carrier" |
| Prefix letters, སྔོན་འཇུག་ | ག་ ད་ བ་ མ་ འ་ |
| Superscribed letters, མགོ་ཡིག་ | ར་ ལ་ ས་ |
| Subscribed letters, འདོགས་ཡིག་ | ཡ་ ར་ ལ་ ཝ་ |
| Suffix letters, རྗེས་འཇུག་ | ག་ ང་ ད་ ན་ བ་ མ་ འ་ ར་ ལ་ ས་ |
| second suffix letters, ཡང་འཇུག་ | ས་ ད་ |
Examples
- བདག་
| བ སྔོན་འཇུག་ prefix letter |
ད མིང་གཞི་ root letter |
ག རྗེས་འཇུག་ postfix letter |
་ ཚེག་ dot |
- ཀྱང་
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