Colloquial Tibetan A Textbook Of The Lhasa Dialect

Library of Tibetan Works & Archives: Colloquial Tibetan is the result of the author's experience as a Tibetan language teacher to foreign students for 18 long years. It covers a detailed grammatical analysis of the Lhasa colloquial and clarifies the similarities and differences between literary and Lhasa colloquial grammar. In a simple fashion, the author follows a contextual teaching method introducing unique forms such as the personal impersonal perspective, the evidentail categories carried by verbs and conjugations, the time-based aspect of the language etc.