The phonetic values of the Tibetan letter r in Tibeto-Chinese transcriptional texts from Dunhuang
In Tibeto-Chinese transcriptions from Dūnhuáng, Tibetan r frequently occurs in syllable final position, where it corresponds to final -t of the traditional Qièyùn System. This use of Tibetan r in the texts has been well known for over a century and is often discussed in the literature. Much ra...
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177730 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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| Summary: | In Tibeto-Chinese transcriptions from Dūnhuáng, Tibetan r frequently
occurs in syllable final position, where it corresponds to final -t of the traditional
Qièyùn System. This use of Tibetan r in the texts has been well known for over a
century and is often discussed in the literature. Much rarer and less well known is
the use of r in syllable initial and medial positions. In this paper it is noted that
syllable initial r- occurs exclusively in certain phrase-final particles and
corresponds to Qièyùn System initial l-, while medial -r- is limited to a small
number of Division II-type syllables. In these latter cases, it may indicate some sort
of rhotacism. |
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