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Reading and spelling aloud

sbyor klog

The traditional method of reading: spelling each syllable aloud, letter by letter and stack by stack, until the sound falls out of the spelling.

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A Tibetan child learns to read by chanting. Each syllable is spelled aloud in a fixed formula, root letter, then subscript, then vowel, then suffix, and the result pronounced at the end, so that the sound is derived from the spelling rather than memorised. The method is called sbyor klog, spelling-reading, and it is why a Tibetan reader can pronounce a word never seen before.

The pages here will teach the formula, the order of the stacks, and the exercises that go from single letters to running text.