Schlagintweit, Hermann von; Schlagintweit, Adolf; Schlagintweit, Robert von: Results of a scientific mission to India and High Asia: undertaken between the years MDCCCLIV and MDCCCLVIII, by order of the court of directors of the hon. East India Company (Band 3): Route-book of the western parts of the Himálaya, Tibet, and Central Asia: and geographical glossary from the languages of India and Tibet, including the phonetic transcription and interpretation (Leipzig, 1863)

CONTENTS.

I. Considerations on the Method employed. page.

1. Collection and elaboration of material............................ 137

2. Principles of writing foreign languages in a European alphabet................ 139

Phonetic transcription.—Transliteration.

3. Limits to physical accuracy ................................ 141

4. Alphabet selected; importance of simplicity for practical use................. 143

5. Account of systems hitherto in use............................. 144

II. Detail of the Alphabet used.

1. Letters and signs used for the phonetic transcription......... ........... 148

Alphabetical registers.

Modification of the letters and signs.

Vowels.—Consonants.—Syllables in general.

2. Detail of the vowels ...........................-......... 150

Pronunciation of the vowels.
The vowel system of Sanskrit.
Vowels of imperfect formation.
Diphthongs.
Nasal vowels.

3. Detail of the consonants.................................. 153

Pronunciation of the consonants.
Tibetan consonants not pronounced.
Duplication.—Composition.—Substitution.

4. The accent........................................ 157

Nature and general occurrence.
Principal accent.—Secondary accents.
Limit to the receding of the accent.

III. Arrangement of the Glossary.

1. Succession of the various parts of the explanation...................... 161

2. Terms prevailing in composition.............................. 163

- , 3. Alphabetical abstract register............................... 166