As a hobby linguist, I really enjoy all of his asides that help to elucidate the significance of the Tibetan writing system that help to explain some of the historical origins. It also helps tremendously to hear extra details that help to note the minute differences in pronunciation.
These are incredibly helpful, I learn so much more about the foundations from watching 15 minutes of your video than I would from studying 15 minutes of my text, just because you are so comprehensive and thorough about the pronunciation. This is helping me so much to get my foundations right which I've been wondering about. Thanks!!
I used to think that learning of tibbatain alphabets is very difficult and complicated but by watching this video I found it very easy and uncomplicated. Thanks for your great efforts. Insha Allah by blessings of Almighty every ethnic group of tibbatain such as Balti, (Baltistan, Northern Pakistan) and laddakhi groups will learn and use their own writing script.
Thanks, when I read the Assimil French méthod, I'm beginning to put the right tone, high or low or aspirated associated with the consonnant, so thanks, I have to review the effects on suffixe letters, préfixes letters , subjoind letters and préfix letters. Thanks for every thinks.
Lhasa and Kham Tibetan lost the voiced sounds (ga, ba, da, ja, dza, zha and za) in favour of the tones. So voiced unaspirated became unvoiced aspirated low tone. Voiceless remained high tone.. but the Amdo Tibetan didn’t develop this. It will be really nice if there was a comparison video
yes you are absolutely right about ཨ་ in fact, Tibetans believe that originally all the letters had འ་ with them, like ཀའ་ཁའ་གའ་ངའ་་་་་་་ but later it was abandoned for obviously there is no need if it. But that's why Tibetans believe, all the letter are pronounced with an འ་-ending sound.
I have a couple of questions: 1) Why would there be a question regarding whether ཨ is a consonant and not འ? 2) Is the difference between ཨ and འ just the tone or does one have the glottal stop and one not?
Regarding about your question no 1, most of the scholars are accepting that ཨ་ is considered as one of the vowel sounds,therefore,there are technically 5 vowel sounds in tibetan. We also cannot rid ཨ་from the tibetan consonant because ,unlike other vowel sounds, it can stand by itself. glottal stop may be a reason but if you studied takjug ,you will get difference between these two.
The འ་ sounds more like Ha (low tone) and the ཨ་ sounds like A (pronounced in French). But u may confuse the འ་ pronounced ha low tone and the ཧ་ high tone
Hello Michael, I got a burning questing .. first like everyone else is asking: What happend to the first 2 videos? Second: You said that there is that one is a low and one a medium tone SHA. I read and hear from many Tibetans that the low tone SHA is more like a french ʒ (like in vision).
And also with (ཛ) is sounds like adding with ཚ་ཧ་འ། which I heard from u is not the way. It should be sounds like when electric shocks makes a sounds... please do reply if m getting not able to share what I m trying to tell u.
As a hobby linguist, I really enjoy all of his asides that help to elucidate the significance of the Tibetan writing system that help to explain some of the historical origins. It also helps tremendously to hear extra details that help to note the minute differences in pronunciation.
These are incredibly helpful, I learn so much more about the foundations from watching 15 minutes of your video than I would from studying 15 minutes of my text, just because you are so comprehensive and thorough about the pronunciation. This is helping me so much to get my foundations right which I've been wondering about. Thanks!!
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I used to think that learning of tibbatain alphabets is very difficult and complicated but by watching this video I found it very easy and uncomplicated. Thanks for your great efforts. Insha Allah by blessings of Almighty every ethnic group of tibbatain such as Balti, (Baltistan, Northern Pakistan) and laddakhi groups will learn and use their own writing script.
What an Amazing teacher!
Mate, your videos are soooo good. Thank you.
ཨ་ is first a consonant and it can be a vowel, just like in English Y is sometimes used like a vowel, though people wouldn't say Y is a vowel.
Bro I am from Pakistan side Baltistan it's called little Tibetan we also called fox WA but I can't write balti script
Thanks, when I read the Assimil French méthod, I'm beginning to put the right tone, high or low or aspirated associated with the consonnant, so thanks, I have to review the effects on suffixe letters, préfixes letters , subjoind letters and préfix letters. Thanks for every thinks.
Wonderful. Thank you so very much!
Thank you / these videos are so useful
People the comment correcting him....he has spent 25 yrs in Tibetan monastery as a monk...and he has given exam as a geshela......
I think you need to pay an attention to many nomadic pronunciation, they say pronounce ཞ་ really as "zha", very different from ཤ
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Lhasa and Kham Tibetan lost the voiced sounds (ga, ba, da, ja, dza, zha and za) in favour of the tones. So voiced unaspirated became unvoiced aspirated low tone. Voiceless remained high tone.. but the Amdo Tibetan didn’t develop this. It will be really nice if there was a comparison video
yes you are absolutely right about ཨ་ in fact, Tibetans believe that originally all the letters had འ་ with them, like ཀའ་ཁའ་གའ་ངའ་་་་་་་ but later it was abandoned for obviously there is no need if it. But that's why Tibetans believe, all the letter are pronounced with an འ་-ending sound.
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I have a couple of questions: 1) Why would there be a question regarding whether ཨ is a consonant and not འ? 2) Is the difference between ཨ and འ just the tone or does one have the glottal stop and one not?
Regarding about your question no 1, most of the scholars are accepting that ཨ་ is considered as one of the vowel sounds,therefore,there are technically 5 vowel sounds in tibetan. We also cannot rid ཨ་from the tibetan consonant because ,unlike other vowel sounds, it can stand by itself.
glottal stop may be a reason but if you studied takjug ,you will get difference between these two.
The འ་ sounds more like Ha (low tone) and the ཨ་ sounds like A (pronounced in French). But u may confuse the འ་ pronounced ha low tone and the ཧ་ high tone
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Hello Michael,
I got a burning questing .. first like everyone else is asking: What happend to the first 2 videos?
Second: You said that there is that one is a low and one a medium tone SHA. I read and hear from many Tibetans that the low tone SHA is more like a french ʒ (like in vision).
would be nice if the sounds "sha and sa" were in the same order as 5 first rows ,- high tone, law tone :))
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And also with (ཛ) is sounds like adding with ཚ་ཧ་འ། which I heard from u is not the way. It should be sounds like when electric shocks makes a sounds... please do reply if m getting not able to share what I m trying to tell u.
Sorry, I don't understand, this means that number 4 has two ways of writing for example? sorry for my inglish
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in nomadic language, ཟ་ is literally pronounced as a za. So please no absolute statement.
Ur pronunciation with (འ) is like (ཨ)་ do listen and kindly do correct. Thank u.