Re: Tibetan block description and "tsek"

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Jan 14 2005 - 18:53:50 CST

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At 14:52 -0800 2005-01-14, Peter Constable wrote:

>The description of Tibetan in Daniels & Bright says (p. 435), "bar
>tsheg... serves to separate syllables..." That differs from the
>paragraph quoted above from TUS4 which suggests that it is used between
>words. Which is correct (or closer to correct)?

The distinction between syllable and word is as fuzzy in Tibetan as
it is in Thai.

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