On Characters of Tibetan Writing System

The Tibetan Writing has a 1300 year history and is widely disseminated and used. On Characters of Tibetan Writing System is a book specifically focusing on Tibetan text symbols, involving research in related fields like features of the characters, their structural features and application properties. The subtitle of this book is 'Alphabetic characters, pronunciations, ISO codes, sorting sequences, picture symbols, and transliterations'. In other words, the study of Tibetan characters must involve the study of their properties such as origin, forms, pronunciation, function and structure as well as their application properties like word frequency, code, sort and transferring. This research work constitutes a guidebook for those seeking knowledge about Tibetan characters.

About the author: Professor Jiang Di is a director and researcher of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Studies in Phonetics and Computational Linguistics in Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; he is conferred as the professor of the Graduate School in Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Doctorial Supervisor.