Tables of Reference to Tibetan Dictionaries

THE great difficulty of the Tibetan language is the spelling. This may appear strange in a monosyllabic language, but is due to there being five Prefixes ( sngön-jug ), ga , da , ba , ma , ha , and four Head-Letters ( Go Yig ), ra , la , sa , which also precede the principal letter, and one subscribed letter, wa , which follows it, which are none of them sounded; and also that certain combinations of letters are pronounced differently to their spelling, namely the principal letters pa and ba followed by ya are pronounced as cha ; most of the principal letters when followed by ra are pronounced as ṭa or ḍa ; and za followed by la is pronounced as ḍa

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