Phonetic development of Tibetan

• Main Author: LaPolla, Randy J.
• Other Authors: University of California, Berkeley
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179171
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This exercise explores the historical relationship between tone, aspiration, prefixes and stem initial consonants in Tibetan. (The stern initial consonant is underlined in those words that have prefixes or initial clusters; [ts], [tsh1, Ita (tol, etc., all count as single consonants.) Other phonetic...