Hand-Book Of Colloquial Tibetan: A Practical Guide To The Language Of Central Tibet

About the Book :The present work is designed to afford not only a complete guide to the Vernacular of Tibet Proper, but also considerable technical information to the traveller in that littleexplored land. The Tibetan territory is computed to hold a population of six millions, sparsely distributed over some 650,000 square miles; and the time is said to be approaching when these extraordinary regions will be laid open to the enterprise of the explorer, the missionary, and the trader. The famous Moravian linguist, however, has brought together in his Dictionary great store of facts concerning the spoken tongue, particularly the Western; and that store has proved a treasurehoard in these pages. It is the lingua franca of the Tibetan Empire which has been analysed and codified in this book; not the dialect forms spoken in corners of the country as in Ladakh, Rahul and Sikkim. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible.