THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription

{{Short description|Tibetan romanization method}}

The THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription of Standard Tibetan (or THL Phonetic Transcription for short) is a system for the phonetic rendering of the Tibetan language.{{cite book | last=Swank | first=H. | title=Rewriting Shangri-La: Tibetan Youth, Migrations and Literacies in McLeod Ganj, India | publisher=Brill | series=Brill's Tibetan Studies Library | year=2014 | isbn=978-90-04-26390-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vq62AgAAQBAJ&pg=PP11 | access-date=2024-05-13 | page=11}}

It was created by David Germano and Nicolas Tournadre and was published on 12 December 2003. It is essentially a simplified form of the Tournadre Phonetic System, which is used by Tournadre in his Tibetan-language textbooks.{{cite book | last=Schaeffer | first=K. | last2=McGrath | first2=W. | last3=Lang | first3=J. | title=Histories of Tibet: Essays in Honor of Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp | publisher=Wisdom Publications | year=2023 | isbn=978-1-61429-808-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zxKsEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1996 | access-date=2024-05-13 | page=1996}}

THL (formerly THDL) stands for the "Tibetan and Himalayan Library" project, which is hosted at the University of Virginia.[https://www.thlib.org/about/wiki/thdl%20home%20about%20us.html About Us] – THL