Is anyone currently interested in Tibetan or Dzongkha? I'm in love with Tibetan.
Three years ago (as seen in this thread) I was interested in Tibetan, but back then I was interested in over 30 languages at least.
Major wanderlust! But now that's settled down, and my interest in Tibetan has returned.
It has everything I love in languages; nasal vowels, retroflex consonants, and tones.
I'm seriously thinking about studying it. I'm learning a bit right now, but I won't make it official until I'm sure I'll stick with it. Hey, I've stuck with Basque for over two years, and am sticking with Hungarian, so why not Tibetan?
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Boy, is Tibetan's orthography a mess! The word for "here" (pronounced [dɛː]) is spelt like "hatahi" (or atai, depending on how you transliterate).
[la] is spelt "lakhas"! Fortunately it doesn't get worse than that. Mostly it's just one or two consonants at the beginning and/or end of the word that aren't pronounced, and possibly change pronunciation. But look at the English word "one" and compare it to its pronunciation - way different!
Awhile back in this thread Formiko said most natives write phonetically, but that doesn't appear to be the case. Maybe I just happened to have come across the few that do, but on YouTube I'd figure they'd write phonetically.
I can do this.
(Sorry if my writing is weird, it happens when I don't sleep at all.
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