LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: wylie

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Mon Sep 29 10:31:54 CEST 2008


LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
1. Name of requester:

Michael Everson

2. E-mail address of requester:

everson at evertype.com

3. Record Requested:

Type: variant
Subtag: wylie
Description: Wylie transliteration of Tibetan
Prefix: bo-Latn

4. Intended meaning of the subtag:

To be used to indicate transcriptions of Tibetan in the  
transliteration developed by Turrell Wylie, who refined the scheme in  
1959. The subtag also covers the Extended Wylie system promulgated in  
2004 by the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library.

5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article):

Wylie, Turrell. 1959. "A standard system of Tibetan transription", in  
the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, vol. 22 [Dec., 1959], pp.  
261-267. http://chris.fynn.googlepages.com/wylietranslitteration

David Chandler, David Chapman, Robert Chilton, Tony Duff, Chris Fynn,  
Nathaniel Garson, David Germano, Steve Hartwell, Peter Hauer, Andrew  
West. 2004. THDL Extended Wylie Transliteration Scheme, Tibetan and  
Himalayan Digital Library. http://www.thdl.org/collections/langling/ewts/

See also the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wylie_transliteration

6. Any other relevant information:
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