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Tibetan
I have received feedback from Tibetan catalogers about some discrepancies between Aksharamukha and the ALA-LC Tibetan romanization table using Roman (IAST) as the target script.
Is the intent of Aksharamukha to conform to ALA-LC standards?
The list of discrepancies is the following (ALA-LC to the left, Aksharamukha to the right):
Vowels:
ཨེ e e ( ĕ, æ, ǣ, Others)
ཨོ o o (ŏ, Others)
ཨཱ ā ā , (ô, others)
Consonants:
ང nga ṅa
Missing Tibetan script in Aksharamukha:
ཅ ཆ ཇ ca cha ja Missing
ཉ nya ña
ཙ tsa ca
ཚ tsha cha
ཛ dza ja
ཝ wa va
Missing Tibetan script in Aksharamukha:
ཞ ཟ འ zha za ’a Missing
ཤ sha śa
Other Letters or Diacritical Marks Used in Words of Non-Tibetan Origin (Log-yig)
ཛྷ dzha jha
Missing Tibetan script in Aksharamukha:
Consonant Clusters with Non-joiner to Disambiguate (see Notes 8 and 9)
གཡ gʹya ཏྶ tʹsa ནྱ nʹya