Amdo Tibetan: A Comprehensive Grammar Textbook
༄༄།། ཨ་མདོའི་ཁ་སྐད།
- 572 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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 to reinforce learning as the lessons progress. Each chapter unpacks the opening sample dialogue and provides an in-depth analysis and technical explanations of the specific constructions presented. Cultural sections are also included in each chapter, as well as a range of exercises and drills to reinforce learning and help students internalize the new information.
The book will be of particular interest to linguists and students with some knowledge of either standard colloquial or literary Tibetan.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface to the Revised Edition
- Preface
- A Brief Introduction to Amdo Tibetan
- Abbreviations
- Lesson 1: The Alphabet and the Sound System
- Lesson 2: Amdo Syllables and Consonants
- Lesson 3: Vowels and Suffixes
- Lesson 4: What’s Your Name?
- Lesson 5: Where Are You From?
- Lesson 6: I Have a Tibetan Textbook
- Lesson 7: There Are Only Nine Students Here Today
- Lesson 8: Do You Have a Picture of Your Family?
- Lesson 9: What Are You Doing in Xining?
- Lesson 10: Where Will You Go?
- Lesson 11: What Do You Want to Eat?
- Lesson 12: I Will Go to See My Parents on Saturday
- Lesson 13: When Did You Arrive?
- Lesson 14: January Is the Coldest Month of the Year
- Lesson 15: The Post Office Is Opposite the Bank
- Lesson 16: It’s Called Tsampa in Tibetan
- Lesson 17: Is This Brown One Pretty?
- Lesson 18: Have You Been to Yulshul?
- Lesson 19: On the Road for More Than Nine Hours
- Lesson 20: My Belly Is Still Hurting
- Lesson 21: Labrang Is a Big Monastery in Amdo
- Appendices
- Tibetan-English Glossary
- English-Tibetan Glossary
- Grammar Index
- Bibliography
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