Special Conventions
The GA-prefixed YA is rendered as G-Y (or GA-Y) in order to distinguish it from YA-subscribed GA (which is rendered as GY). Note that the form GA-Y, used in previous ACIP releases, has now been superseded by the form G-Y.
The wazur is renedered using the letter V, as in ZHVA, GRVA, etc.
Examples:
A plus-sign is used to indicate a verical stacking for two Tibetan letters in those cases where ambiguity might occur. When, in transliteration, mulitple roman letter consonants are written in sequence, there are three possibilities:
- representing a single Tibetan letter as in :
- representing a prefix-root sequence as in:
- representing a vertical stack of letters as in:
NYA, TSA, SHA
DMIGS, GNAS
KYA, RMA
Therefore, the plus-sign is required in certain cases, such as in D+MA, to show stacking as opposed to prefixing (DMA); it is required in N+YA and T+SA to show stacking as opposed to a single letter (NYA and TSA). It should be noted that plus-signs may occur in ACIP data even incases where they are not strictly required for resolving ambiguity..
Examples:
The hyphen is used to indicate that two letters appear in horizontally adjacent positions with no intervening "tsek" (as seen in G-Y, above). Although the hyphen is usually not needed for resolving ambigutiy (PADMA is just as definite as PA-DMA or PA-D+MA, it is sometimes typed in cases other than G-Y. [Note that the DMA sequence in PADMA does not strictly require a plus-sign since the D can only be interpreted aas a suffix to PA and not as a prefix to MA; however, if written (incorrectly) as a PA DMA, theD could be interpreted as a prefix to MA.}
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