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Tibetan Language Page

would be good to split this into larger categories, like (Existing) Tools, (Existing) Text, Reference Materials—or something of this sort -JNW

Existing Tools

In this section, we list existing dictionaries, translations and translating tools.

The first Tibetan–European language dictionary was written in 1834 by Hungarian Sándor Kőrösi Csoma (1784–1842).^[1]
Linguist Heinrich August Jäschke formed a the Moravian mission in 1857 in Ladakh. During this time, he wrote Tibetan Grammar and A Tibetan–English Dictionary.^[2] There's also a free eBook version of this dictionary
There are a number of Tibetan online dictionaries.
There is also a Tibetan translation tool and a downloadable dictionary.
Here is some more information about the Tibetan alphabet

This Bible translation may be useful. Wikipedia also has a page devoted to Tibetan bible translation.
Furthermore, there are full English translations of Bardo Thödol, the Tibetan book of the dead. I'm having trouble finding a Tibetan version, but I'm sure it exists somewhere on the Internet.
This website has Tibetan and English versions of various books. We will try to locate some of these sources.
Apparently Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was also translated into Tibetan. I'm having trouble finding the actual text however
This website which has Tibetan/English text translations may be the most useful one we've found so far. Each line has Tibetan and the corresponding English translation below it. There's enough text here to sustain us for quite a while.

A Microsoft Visual Basic macro spellchecker for Tibetan language in Microsoft Word. GNU General Public License (GNU GPL)
Here's another spellchecker with documentation. The bibliography for this project is here, which includes additional sources that we could use
A Classical Tibetan syllable spellchecker for Hunspell. Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal

This links to a Tibetan transliteration converter, which is located here. This page lists collaborators, versions, etc.. There are also instructions
Link to a wiki page for wylie, which is a method for transliterating Tibetan text into Roman script.
Wiki page about Tibetan grammar. This has a lot of information about pronunciation, tone, prefixes, etc. This page is similar.
The main Wikipedia site has a really useful page on Tibetan grammar

There are a number of academic papers relating to this subject. In this section, we list a few of them.

Research papers on speech recognition for Tibetan

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 *Furthermore, there are [https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/35600/the-tibetan-book-of-the-dead/ full English translations] of Bardo Thödol, the Tibetan book of the dead.  I'm having trouble finding a Tibetan version, but I'm sure it exists somewhere on the Internet.
 *[http://www.tibetanlanguage.org/bookstore/EngTib_Texts.html This website] has Tibetan and English versions of various books.  We will try to locate some of these sources.
-*Apparently [https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/07/21/harry-potter-podder-and-the-tibetan-translator/ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone] was also translated into Tibetan
+*Apparently [https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/07/21/harry-potter-podder-and-the-tibetan-translator/ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone] was also translated into Tibetan.  I'm having trouble finding the actual text however
 *This [http://www.lotsawahouse.org/bo/free-translations-tibetan-buddhist-texts website which has Tibetan/English text translations] may be the most useful one we've found so far.  Each line has Tibetan and the corresponding English translation below it.  There's enough text here to sustain us for quite a while.