Re: CHAT: Tibetan orthography/pronunciation
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 6, 2002, 18:24 |
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At 21:12 2002-09-04 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>How predictable is Tibetan pronunciation from its orthography?
Ninety-seven per cent. There are a bunch of irregularly pronounced words,
and a few cases of recent loan-words which stretch the rules a bit, but on
the whole you are safe once you know the rules.
/BP 8^)>
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