86 E. H. Walsh —Tibetan Language , fy Recent Dictionaries. [No. 2, 
From the examples given above it will be seen that, in respect of the 
words used, the Common and Honorific are practically two languages. 
(8) . The Dictionary should also contain an Dnglish-Tibetan Vocabulary 
in which the Tibetan words may be written transliterated in the Roman 
Character with the reference against each to the page on which it is to be 
found in the Tibetan-English portion of the Dictionary , as in Jaschke’s 
English-Tibet an Vocabulary. 
(9) . The Materials for such a Dictionary will be — 
(1) all colloquial and current words in Jaschke, Desgodins, and the 
present Dictionary. 
(2) All words from recent Colloquial Primers or Grammars of the 
various dialects, which have not been included in the present diction¬ 
aries. Such are Henderson’s Tibetan Manual; Amundsen’s Primer of 
Standard Tibetan; Franke’s Ladaki 1 Grammar. 
(3) Printed lists in English of all the principal words in colloquial 
and current use, copies of which might be sent to various natives, 
missionaries, officials, and other local workers in Tibetan in various local¬ 
ities and dialects; and they might be asked to enter against each the 
words, if any, known to them or ascertained to be in general use. 
These lists should for clearness provide two columns; one for the 
common, and the other for the Honorific word (where such exists). 
With the above material there would be sufficient to compile a 
Standard Dictionary of the Colloquial and Current Language. These 
lists, on receipt, would be compared with the Central language which 
would be first compiled. Whenever the word in the dialectic lists 
agreed with the word in use in the Central language no separate entry 
would be made. Where it differed it would be entered with a letter 
indicating the dialect to which it belonged. 
I have indicated the lines which such a Dictionary should take. 
Its compilation would be a very fitting object for Government to under¬ 
take. The Dictionaries of Csoma de Koros, Jaschke, and the present one 
of Rai Sarat Chandra Das, all owe their existence to Government aid, 
and it may be expected that Government will shew in the future the 
same enlightened and liberal spirit that it has done in the past. 
With good arrangements for the collection of material, the compila¬ 
tion of such a Dictionary should not take much more than a year, and 
any cost and labour bestowed on it would be well repaid by the practical 
value of the results obtained. 
1 J.A.S.B., Volume LXX, Part I, Extra No. 2.—1901. 
