Tibetan grammar / by H. A. Jas̈chke.

  • Jäschke, H. A. (Heinrich August), 1817-1883.
Date:
1883
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Credit: Tibetan grammar / by H. A. Jas̈chke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tions are pronounced literally, like kra> khra etc,, bat by far the most general custom is to sound them like the In¬ dian cerebrals, viz. ^^, £J indiscriminately — ^ 1}) 5J = ^ ^, 5* 3 5=3 ^ ^ (in CT; onlyin the case of CJ the literal pronunciation hr is not uncommon. In $ and both letters are distinctly heard; ^ sounds like shr in shrub, and so does generally. In U this r is dropped nearly in all cases: thus, pa, sa. etc. 4. Six letters are often found with an beneath: a- sr s r§' s’? in these the OJ alone is pronounced, except in which sounds da. 5. The figure <j, sometimes found at tbe food of a letter is used in Sanscrit words to express the subjoined tf, as in (cf. § 9. 6) for *37^; and is now pronounced by Tibetans — 6: solid; in words originally Tibetan it now exists merely as an orthographical mark, to distinguish homonymes in writing, as d£* fm,hot4 and d£j' t'sa ,salt‘; but, as it is spoken, in some words at least, in Balti (e. g. S’ < rtswa ,grass4, it must be supposed that, in the primitive form of the lauguage, it was generally heard. — Note. Of such compounds, indeed, as ,lot‘ it is difficult to under- stand, how they can have been pronounced literally, if the v was not, perhaps, pronounced before the y. Super added consonants. 6. r above another con¬ sonant is written 'r, and 11 contonants have this sign: f C S ^ R S' F. ^ove J it preserves