English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan

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English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 514
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ISBN-10 : 9780520051577
ISBN-13 : 0520051572
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Book Synopsis English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan by : Melvyn C. Goldstein

Book excerpt: This English-Tibetan dictionary contains 16,000 main entries and subentries, a total of 45,000 lexical items. The dictionary is primarily oriented to spoken communication and was designed to be semantically sensitive, bridging the semantic gap between Tibetan and English. Tibetan terms corresponding to submeanings of English subterms are specified, and each entry in the dictionary includes both the Tibetan orthography and a phonemic notation to indicate pronunciation. Grammatical features are noted, and all examples of usage are presented with the romanization of the Tibetan and phonemic notation of the spoken forms. An introductory essay outlines the main features of Tibetan grammar. (MSE)


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