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A Textbook of Classical Tibetan

Congratulations on starting a new book, Tibetologist! I noticed that some parts of it look like verbatim copies from w:Tibetan script. As Wikipedia articles are licensed under the GFDL, there needs to be propers attribution to former contributors. The easiest way is to request for an import and then edit the imported version.

The Tibetan text you included similarly needs to be cleared for copyright. Please clarify where you got these texts in your edit summaries and/or on the talk page.

Cheers, --Swift (talk) 07:52, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Research on Tibetan Languages: A Bibliography

Bibliographies usually belong in books. Is this supposed to be a page in A Textbook of Classical Tibetan? Please let me know if you'd like some help moving the page. See also Help:Editing#Subpage links for more on sub-pages. --Swift (talk) 09:18, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

No, I have meant to start a book length (analytic) bibliography. Such things exist Die Erforschung des Tocharische' or Stary's big Manchu bibliography leap to mind.

I see. I've added {{new book}} tags to both your books. These have tips on how to catalogue your books. They also add them to the {{new}} books list which gives them a little bit of extra publicity.

Seeing how you have well your text is referenced, you may be interested in Help:Editing#References.

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Feel free to ask me or request assistence in the appropriate reading room if you have any questions. I doubt the community will be of much use on such a specialised topic, but we're all more than happy to help. --Swift (talk) 15:22, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Bibliography of Tangut Studies

This book is not linked to from any other, so it is not apparent what it is a bibliography for. Most of it is not in English, so I am unable to tell whether it is the start of a book or a mistake. Please clarify the situation as described above. -- Adrignola ^{talk contribs} 23:14, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Not all bibliographies need to be appended to books. Sometimes they are created as scholarly resources. I could perhaps point to Shafer's Bibliography of Sino-Tibetan Languages, or Stary's bibliography of Manchu studies. This is the intention of this book. In fact two such books have already been published as you can see in the entries under Arakawa and Kwanten. Much of it is not in English because much of Tangut studies is not done in English. You will notice that all Chinese and Japanese are transliterated into the standard anglophone systems (Pinyin and modified Hepburn respectively) and that many of the entries have English translations (the intention is to have translations for all Chinese and Japanese and maybe Russian, one assumes that most educated people know French and German, or at least one assumes that in works like this). Tibetologist (talk) 13:54, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the information. I'm trying to categorize all the books. I hope it's all right if I file your page in Category:Cultural anthropology? -- Adrignola ^{talk contribs} 15:12, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Linguistics might also make sense.

Networking

Wikiversity:Topic:Tibetan
B9 hummingbird hovering (talk) 09:25, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi

I have Tibetan Unicode TTF installed on my computer. One of my browsers Oprah enables me to see Tibetan in the Classical Tibetan Wikibook. I am going to be travelling tomorrow and I thought it a good opportunity to read this book. I exported it as PDF and all of the Tibetan is squares. I save it as a webpage and it is all visual noise when I open it in a browser. Do you have any insight into this?
Thank you
B9 hummingbird hovering (talk) 17:00, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

I got it working I had to change how the page was encoded to Unicode-8 or something and then tweak the html file extension type. Your advice to copy and paste was good and I will do that in future as it is somewhat easier. Do you have any information handy on the 9 cases of Tibetan? I have learnt the script and am typing happily in Tibetan though I am still tweaking Devanagari. I have secured a copy of the 30 Verses, the traditional grammar that is to be memorized by traditional students of Classical Tibetan and am considering working on a translation of that. Jumping straight in the deep end is my way.

B9 hummingbird hovering (talk) 12:29, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Grammar

Thank you so much for your kind offer regarding emailing me some grammars. My email is Please delete it from here when you receive this message. I get enough unsolicited email as it is. *chuckle* I would prefer a webcrawler doesn't pick it up. I have noticed some user's chatpages on those mirror sites. I have taken stock of your advice that no grammar is very good and that I best read several to form my own opinion.
I appreciate this very much. Thank you.
B9 hummingbird hovering (talk) 00:20, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

ello

I am transcribing the Ngondro of the Longchen Nyingtig. There is text of a standard size, then there are what appears to be annotations and practice instructions etcetera in little text of smaller font. I appreciate that the texts such as this Ngondro were living documents and that annotations slowly became incorporated into the text proper. Do you know what this is called? What is its functionality etc? If I have the name for it then I can research it myself. Also, I couldn't find any convention in the EWTS for marking such smaller text, what conventions are you familiar with? Thank you very much for Beyer as well.
B9 hummingbird hovering (talk) 07:53, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Character List for Karlgren's GSR

Good grief -- this is fantastically useful and just generally awesome. Thanks, Tibetologist, Zhaonach (discuss • contribs) 03:29, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

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