The THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription of
Standard Tibetan (or ''THL Phonetic Transcription'' for short) is a system for the phonetic rendering of the
Tibetan language Tibetan language may refer to:
* Lhasa Tibetan or Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken dialect
* Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard
* Any of the other Tibetic languages
See also
* Ol ...
.
It was created by
David Germano and
Nicolas Tournadre and was published on 12 December 2003. It is essentially a simplified form of the Tournadre Phonetic System, which is used by Tournadre in his Tibetan-language textbooks.
THL (formerly THDL) stands for the "
Tibetan and Himalayan Library" project, which is hosted at the
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia (UVA) is a Public university#United States, public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson and contains his The Lawn, Academical Village, a World H ...
.
Overview
OnsetsTHL Simplified Phonetic Transcription of Standard Tibetan
– THL
Vowels
References
External links
(Tibetan & Himalayan Library)
THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription of Standard TibetanTHL Extended Wylie Transliteration of Tibetan
Tibet
Romanization of Tibetan
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