ARRANGEMENT OF THE VOLUME.
The following scheme exhibits a key to the arrangement of all the words that occur in this Dictionary, showing how they are placed alphabetically; — primarily, under the 30 consonants; secondarily, in the order of the five vowels, inherent or expressed; — together with the pages of each series. The value of each Tibetan letter (or syllable) has been here also expressed in Roman characters, as it was omitted to be done in the body of the work. The affixes or consonants which may form the concluding letters of words occur under each secondary series in the following order, viz.:
| -ག | -g | -བས | -bs | |
| -གས | -gs | -མ | -m | |
| -ང | -ng | -མས | -ms | |
| -ངས | -ngs | -འ | -ah | |
| -ད | -d | -ར | -r | |
| -ན | -n | -ལ | -l | |
| -བ | -b | -ས | -s |
The learner must be acquainted with this order before he can conveniently consult the work. The principal words are arranged in the front line, and their compounds and derivatives afterwards follow in an interior line without any alphabetical order.
In the Roman orthography, it should be remarked, that letters marked by italics, according to the scheme adopted and explained in the Grammar, are silent. — The syllables in parentheses show the vulgar pronunciation of particular letters or compounds.
Alphabetic System of the Dictionary, and References to the pages of each series.
| Page. | ||||||
| ཀ K | ཀ ka | ཀི ki | ཀུ ku | ཀེ ké | ཀོ ko | . . 1 |
| ཀྱ kya | ཀྱི kyi | ཀྱུ kyu | ཀྱེ kyé | ཀྱོ kyo | . . 3 | |
| ཀྲ kra | — | — | — | ཀྲོ kro | . . 4 | |
| ཀླ kla | — | ཀླུ klu | — | ཀློ klo | . . 4 | |
| ཁ K'h | ཁ kha | ཁི khi | ཁུ khu | ཁེ khé | ཁོ kho | . . 5 |
| ཁྱ khya | ཁྱི khyi | ཁྱུ khyu | ཁྱེ khyé | ཁྱོ khyo | . . 11 | |
| ཁྲ khra | ཁྲི khri | ཁྲུ khru | ཁྲེ khré | ཁྲོ khro | . . 14 | |
| ག G | ག ga | གི gi | གུ gu | གེ gé | གོ go | . . 16 |
| གྱ gya | གྱི gyi | གྱུ gyu | གྱེ gyé | གྱོ gyo | . . 20 | |
