THDL Extended Wylie Transliteration Scheme
- Version: 2.0
(Working Draft)
- Date: 2004-01-07
- Contributors: David Chandler, David Chapman, Robert Chilton, Tony Duff, Chris Fynn, Nathaniel Garson (co-director), David Germano (co-director), Steve Hartwell, Peter Hauer, Andrew West.
- Description: The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library (THDL)'s Extended Wylie Transliteration Scheme (EWTS) is a collaborative effort
to extend the basic transliteration scheme, originally proposed in the 1950s by Turrell Wylie ("A Standard System of Tibetan
Transcription," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, vol. 22 [Dec., 1959], pp. 261-267), in order to provide a completely comprehensive method for transliterating all forms
of Tibetan literature using the Latin alphabet and the symbols available on a standard keyboard. The scheme provides not only
transliteration equivalents but also methods for handling special situations, such as Tibetan transliteration of Sanskrit,
how to insert other languages within Tibetan transliteration, and the like.
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| Note: When viewing the charts of characters, more information about a specific characters can be viewed either by
1) putting the mouse over the picture of that character to reveal its Unicode code and name or by
2) clicking on the picture itself to display the full information about that character.
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