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Standard Tibetan Lhasa Tibetan (), or Standard Tibetan, is the Tibetan dialect spoken by educated people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. It is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region. In the traditional "three-branc ...
(or ''THL Phonetic Transcription'' for short) is a system for the phonetic rendering of the Tibetan language. It was created by David Germano and Nicolas Tournadre and was published on 12 December 2003. It is essentially a simplified form of the Tournadre Phonetic System, which is used by Tournadre in his Tibetan-language textbooks. THL (formerly THDL) stands for the " Tibetan and Himalayan Library" project, which is hosted at the
University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with College admission ...
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THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription of Standard Tibetan
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(Tibetan & Himalayan Library)
THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription of Standard Tibetan

THL Extended Wylie Transliteration of Tibetan
Tibet Romanization of Tibetan {{writingsystem-stub