Full Description
The Tibetan Writing has a 1300 year history and is widely disseminated and used. On Characters of Tibetan Writing System is a book specifically focusing on Tibetan text symbols, involving research in related fields like features of the characters, their structural features and application properties. The subtitle of this book is 'Alphabetic characters, pronunciations, ISO codes, sorting sequences, picture symbols, and transliterations'. In other words, the study of Tibetan characters must involve the study of their properties such as origin, forms, pronunciation, function and structure as well as their application properties like word frequency, code, sort and transferring. This research work constitutes a guidebook for those seeking knowledge about Tibetan characters.
Contents
Chapter 1 The Origin and Nature of Tibetan Writing System
1.1 Conjecture of the Origin of Tibetan Writing System
1.2 Nature of Tibetan Writing System
1.3 Tibetan Font
Chapter 2 Structural and Statistical Characteristics of Tibetan Writing System
2.1 Tibetan Characters and Tibetan Word Structures
2.2 Tibetan Graphs: Consonant Characters
2.3 Tibetan Glyphs: Vowel Characters
2.4 Structures of Tibetan Spelling and Their Frequencies
2.5 Statistical Characteristics of Tibetan Dictionaries
Chapter 3 Types of Tibetan Characters and Their Functions
3.1 Classification of Tibetan Text Characters: Graph and Picture
3.2 Accounts for Classification of Tibetan Text Symbols and Functions
3.3 Classification of Tibetan Non-text Symbols and Accounts of Significance
Chapter 4 Tibetan Latin Transliteration Scheme
4.1 Aim and Scope of Tibetan Latin Transliteration
4.2 Comparison among Different Schemes of Tibetan Latin Transliteration
4.3 Systematic and Practising Principles of Tibetan Latin Transliteration
4.4 Whole Scheme of Tibetan Latin Transliteration
4.5 Some Rules of Text Transliteration and Returning Rules to the Origin
Chapter 5 A Sorting Order for Tibetan Characters and Its Algorithm
5.1 History of Sorting Orders in Tibetan Dictionaries
5.2 Inconsistency in Sorting Orders among Tibetan Dictionaries
5.3 Word Constructing Orders and Grades of Distinctive Constitutions
5.4 Tibetan Character Sequence and Their Assignment with Values
5.5 Mathematical Sorting Model for Tibetan E-Dictionary
5.6 Algorithm of Tibetan Sorting Order and Charts
Chapter 6 Tibetan Alphabetic Characters
Including Consonant Characters, Vowel Characters, etc.
Chapter 7 Tibetan Non-alphabetic Characters
Including Diacritical Marks, Numeral Symbols and Punctuations
Chapter 8 Tibetan Graphical Symbols
Including Traditional Tibetan Textual Symbols, Honorific Symbols for Appellation, Promoting Symbols for Cantillation, Calendared Symbols, Astrological Symbols, and Ornamental Symbols, etc.
Appendices
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