Despite the importance of Old Tibetan in the Tibeto‐Burman language family, little research
has treated Old Tibetan synchronic phonology. This article gives a complete overview of the …

The discovery of sound laws by comparing attested languages is the method which has
unlocked the history of European languages stretching back thousands of years before the …

Tibetan is attested from the mid seventh century CE, when the nascent Tibetan Empire
began to imitate the Chinese fashion of recording contemporary political events. The written …

This dissertation is a description of Dongwang Tibetan. It is based on personal biographies,
narratives and procedural texts, as well as on elicited material. Dongwang is a Southern …

Scholars of Indo-European historical linguistics have long found it convenient to refer to well
known sound changes by the name of the researcher who first noticed the correspondences …

There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language
family in the world. Records of these languages are among the oldest for any human …

Beginning with de Koros (1834) many researchers have held that the Tibetan letter {?} as a
simple initial represents a voiced fricative. In 1881 Jaschke initiated an alternative view …

An urban system flourished in central Burma in the first millennium ce, before the
ascendancy of the Burmese. Its culture is known to scholars and the public as' Pyu'. The …

A new transcription system for old and classical Tibetan Page 1 Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman
Area Volume 35.2 — October 2012 89 A NEW TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEM FOR OLD AND …

Since their coinage a quarter-century ago, the terms abugida and alphasyllabary (Bright
1999; Daniels & Bright 1996) have revolutionised our conceptualisation of writing systems …