Introduction to the classic Tibetan language. Textbook with a dictionary

The Tibetan language belongs to the family of Indochina or monosyllabic languages, to the group of it, which some linguists call Zagimalayskaya, ranks the languages ​​of Gayarun, the sharp, maniakmanak, takla, Horpa, the Tibetan language, or Bhotya, and Bhotya-Lo. The monosyllabic principle of the structure was carried out in it not in the same purity as in the Chinese language and the languages ​​of Tai (Siamese and others), it already observed agglutination, although to a rather weak degree, along with the internal change in the verb roots that matter of real flexion. The Tibetan language comes from the Tibeto-Berman language group, and also may be a distant relative of Chinese. In various local forms, it is used in the Tibetan cultural space, which includes Tibet itself, the western regions of China and peripheral regions from the fret along the southern border of Tibet to Butan. With the spread of Tibetan Buddhism, some members of the Mongolian sangha also began to understand this language. The purpose of this book