Тибетское произношение (Геше Майкл Роуч), занятие 8

[Speaker 1]
Welcome back to our Tibetan pronunciation videos. We're going to do two more good examples. Okay, here we go.

Transcribe. Space. Pronunciation.

T-S-O-K. Space. Good job.

Nam. I thought nam was a pluralizer. Nam is a pluralizer, so we split it off.

Okay, it's not part of the word. In English it would be. But in Sanskrit and in Tibetan it's not.

It's a separate particle that indicates. It's like a genitive particle or an instrumental particle, an ablative particle, we split them off. So tsoknam.

Let's do another example with the same word. By the way, it means the people in the group. Tsok means group and nam means the people in it.

Let's do another example with the same word. T-S-O-G-S. Space.

[Speaker 2]
G-N-Y-I-S.

[Speaker 1]
Ni. Any nasal with a letter in front of it or on top of it goes hi. Ni.

Ni. What's ni as a low tone? Like nima.

The sun. It's a big difference. And you have to pronounce it correctly.

Or a Tibetan doesn't know what you're saying. It's like Germans who say cheap and jeep because they can't hear the difference. They're like, can I get a cheap jeep?

Tsoknam is a group of people in the group. How are we going to pronounce this?

[Speaker 2]
T-S-O-K.

[Speaker 1]
T-S-O-K.

[Speaker 2]
G-N-Y-I-S.

[Speaker 1]
Space. So we're going to split off numbers. The two collections.

What are the two collections? Wisdom and merit. The two parts.

Once you start collecting karma at an advanced level with your knowledge of the pen, we don't call it karma anymore. We call it the two collections. Because that produces a Buddhist body directly.

That goes straight into a Buddhist body. We have time for one more, I think. Let's go fast.

So what I wanted to teach you generally here is split numbers off. And split pluralizers off. You know, on that subject, there's another relevant one.

Oops, sorry. I gave you the... Pronounce.

NAM DAG. DAG means? Self.

DAG means? Pure. NAM DAG means totally pure.

Pure. NAM DAG means I'm something. Got it?

Say DAG. That's self. That's pure.

But very importantly, and that's why I gave you this example, this DAG dot is the dualizer in Sanskrit. Sanskrit has singular, plural, and a separate category called dual, with different endings. When you say two people, you put another ending on the noun.

When you say three people, you put a different ending on the noun. So in Sanskrit you have person, two persons, and people. You have three ways to say number.

And when there's...Tibetans translate older scriptures, they use DAG as a pluralizer. Being a dualizer makes pairs of things. Like NIMA DAG DAG.

The... The pair of the sun and the moon. So, if it means pure, you would pronounce it NAM DAG.

D-A-K?

[Speaker 2]
Space?

[Speaker 1]
No space. Okay, no space. That's what I'm trying to say.

It's not a dualizer here. It doesn't mean a pair here. It means pure.

When it means a pair, let's do it real fast. NIMA NIMA DAG DAG DAG Okay? Pronunciation.

NIMA Sorry, transcription. Help me out here. What is that?

[Speaker 2]
It's a Z.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you said something else. DAG Okay?

Here it means two things. The sun and the moon. The pair of the sun and the moon.

So you would pronounce it what? Sorry. N-Y-I-M-A We'll talk about it later, but it's not strong enough of a prenasal to show it.

As a second syllable it would be. DAG Space? Nice.

Your spaces are very good. D-A K. Good.

In the beginning of a word of pronunciation, G is? K. G.

At the end of a word it's? K. B at the beginning of a word is?

B or W, depending on where it is. But at the end of a word it's? P.

Yeah, those are the two examples. Got it? So we still split off the number words.

Our spaces are split off in pronunciation. Why? We want our reader to pause slightly there.

NYI-MA-DA-WA-DAG But here it's NAM-DAG. NAM-DAG. Got it?

That's DAGS. Now you have DAGS. Alright.

See you at the next pronunciation video.