Schlagintweit, Emil: Buddhism in Tibet: illustrated by literary documents and objects (Leipzig, 1863)

ALPHABET USED FOB TEANSCBIPTION. XIII

5. ', the Greek spiritus lenis I used for rendering the
Tibetan soft aspirate; in this I followed the advice of
Prof. Lepsius, in his recent supplement to his well-known
" Standard Alphabet/''

2. DETAILED TRANSLITERATION OF THE
TIBETAN ALPHABET.

The thirty simple letters of the Tibetan language are
represented in Eoman characters in the following
manner :

^Tl k; fU kh; ZJ1 g; ^ ng; -5 ch; &> chh;

5, J; i) ny; y fc; a th; ^ d; ^ n;

S! p; 5J phi q b; 53 m; -5 ts; £ tsh;

5,dz; <% v; (^ zh; 3 z; a'; U! y;
^r; Oil; -H sh; *1 s; 2^ h; l*J a.

The point separating the syllables in Tibetan words
and sentences, is rendered by a small horizontal line.

The compound letters, seventy-four in number, and
formed by having another letter subjoined or surmounted,
are transliterated thus: the subjoined letter is written
behind the radical, as e. g. 7T1 is rendered by kr,—the

surmounting precedes the radical letter, as e. g. QJ Ih.

1 "Ueber Chinesische und Tibetanische Latitverhaltnisse, und uber die
Umschrift jener Sprachen." Abbandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften
von Berlin, 1861, p. 479.