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=Chapter II,  The Tibetan Syllable=

==Formation of the Tibetan Syllable==

===The General Structure of the Tibetan Syllable===
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<font size="25">བསྒྲུབས་</font><br>

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| style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" |  || style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" |
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| style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | <font size="10">ས</font> || style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" |
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| style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | <font size="10">བ</font> || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | <font size="10">ག || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | <font size="10">བ</font> || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | <font size="10">ས</font> || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | <font size="10">་</font>
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| style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | <font size="10">ར</font> || style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" |
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| style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" |  <font size="10">ུ</font> || style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" |
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<font size="25">དབྱིངས་</font><br>

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| style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" |  || style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" |
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| style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | <font size="10">ི</font> || style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" |
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| style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | <font size="10">ད</font> || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | <font size="10">བ</font> || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | <font size="10">ང</font> || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | <font size="10">ས</font> || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | <font size="10">་</font>
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| style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | <font size="10">ཡ</font> || style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" |
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'''General'''

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| style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | དབྱངས་༼ཨི་ཨེ་ཨོ་༽<br>''vowel (i, e, o)'' || style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" |
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| style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | མགོ་ཡིག་<br>''superscript letter'' || style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" |
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| style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | སྔོན་འཇུག་<br>''prescript letter'' || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | མིང་གཞི་<br>''root letter'' || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | རྗེས་འཇུག་<br>''postscript letter'' || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | ཡང་འཇུག་<br>''second postscript letter'' || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | ཚེག་<br>''dot''
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| style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | འདོགས་ཡིག་<br>''subscript letter'' || style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" |
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| style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | དབྱངས་༼ཨུ་༽<br>''vowel (u)<br>'' || style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" | || style="background-color:#ffffff" |
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'''Example''': བདག་

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| style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | བ || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | ད || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | ག || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | ་
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| style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | སྔོན་འཇུག་<br>prescript letter || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | མིང་གཞི་<br>root letter || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | རྗེས་འཇུག་<br>postscript letter || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | ཚེག་<br>dot
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===List of valid Tibetan Letter Positions===
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| style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | prescript letters, སྔོན་འཇུག་ || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | ག་ ད་ བ་ མ་ འ་
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| style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | superscript letters, མགོ་ཡིག་ || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | ར་ ལ་ ས་
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| style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | subscript letters, འདོགས་ཡིག་ || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | ཡ་ ར་ ལ་ ཝ་
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| style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | postscript letters, རྗེས་འཇུག་ || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | ག་ ང་ ད་ ན་ བ་ མ་ འ་ ར་ ལ་ ས་
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| style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | second postscript letters, ཡང་འཇུག་ || style="background-color:#e0e0fa" | ས་ ད་
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