What is Wylie transliteration?
[[File:Turrell Wylie.png|thumb|Prof. Turrell Wylie in in 1979 at the University of Washington, Department of Asian Languages and Literature.]] '''Wylie transliteration''' is a way to write [[Tibetan script]] using [[English language|English]] letters found on a standard [[typewriter]]. Turrell V. Wylie, an [[Americans|American]] [[scholar]], created this system, and he introduced it in a 1959 article in the [[Harvard University|Harvard]] Journal of Asiatic Studies. It has since become a widely used method in [[Tibetan language|Tibetan]] studies, especially in the [[United States]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wylie|first=Turrell|date=1959|title=A Standard System of Tibetan Transcription.|url=http://sites.google.com/site/chrisfynn2/wylietransliteration|access-date=2023-12-28|website=Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies|archive-date=2011-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110127175457/http://sites.google.com/site/chrisfynn2/wylietransliteration|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sU5bDwAAQBAJ&dq=wylie+transliteration&pg=PA91|title=Spoken Tibetan Basics: A Spoken Tibetan Language Primer|last1=Tharpa|first1=Tenzin|last2=Tsultrim|first2=Sangye|publisher=Tenzin Tharpa|language=en}}</ref> When creating a [[Romanization]] for the [[Tibetan language]], there's a challenge: whether to accurately represent the sounds of spoken [[Tibetan language|Tibetan]] or the spelling of written [[Tibetan language|Tibetan]]. These can be quite different, similar to the difference between [[English language|English]] and [[French language|French]] [[orthography]], which reflects the pronunciation from the Late [[Middle Ages|Medieval]] period.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sU5bDwAAQBAJ&dq=wylie+transliteration&pg=PA91|title=Spoken Tibetan Basics: A Spoken Tibetan Language Primer|last1=Tharpa|first1=Tenzin|last2=Tsultrim|first2=Sangye|publisher=Tenzin Tharpa|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zxKsEAAAQBAJ&dq=wylie+transliteration&pg=