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Re: Tibetan orthography (was: Why my conlangs SUCK!!!)

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, January 24, 2004, 18:58
Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> At 19:32 22.1.2004, Andreas Johansson wrote: > > >Is there any officially sanctioned way of writing Tibetan in Latin letters, > >analoguous to pinyin? > > The Chinese and their cronies write it in a mutilated > pinyin, and I guess it's official to *them*.
That would be the cause of 'Xigaze' and the like? How so mutilated? Adapted to Tibetan? Hm, I guess there must also be a scheme for mapping Tibetan onto Hanzi? Sounds like that could get real ugly ... esp if you THEN pinyinize. Andreas

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Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>