1st Edition

Amdo Tibetan: A Comprehensive Grammar Textbook ༄༄།། ཨ་མདོའི་ཁ་སྐད།

By Kuo-ming Sung, Lha Byams Rgyal Copyright 2021
606 Pages 157 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

606 Pages 157 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

606 Pages 157 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Amdo Tibetan: A Comprehensive Grammar Textbook is a rigorous one-year college-level textbook for English speakers who wish to learn the Amdo dialect of the Tibetan language. This comprehensive introduction to the language provides dialogues at the start of each new lesson to illustrate the constructions covered in that lesson. Material from previous chapters is recycled within these dialogues... Read more

Preface to the Revised Edition  Preface  A Brief Introduction to Amdo Tibetan  Abbreviations  1:The Alphabet and the Sound System 2:The Onset and Syllable Structure 3:Vowels and Suffixes 4:What's Your Name? 5:Where Are You From? 6:I Have a Tibetan Textbook 7:There Are Only Nine Students Here Today 8: Do You Have a Picture of Your Family? 9:What Are You Doing in Xining? 10:Where Will You Go? 11:What Do You Want to Eat? 12:I Will Go to See My Parent on Saturday 13:When Did You Arrive? 14:January Is the Coldest Month of the Year 15: The Post Office Is Opposite the Bank 16:It's Called Tsampa in Tibetan 17: Is This Brown One Pretty? 18:Have You Been to Yulshul? 19: On the Road for More Than Nine Hours 20:My Belly Is Still Hurting 21:Labrang Is a Big Monastery in Amdo.

Biography

Kuo-ming Sung is Professor of Chinese and Linguistics at Lawrence University, USA.

Lha Byams Rgyal is Senior Researcher at the Tibetology Research Center, Beijing, China.