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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Tibetan on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Tibetan in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing
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Wikipedia key to pronunciation of Tibetan
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Standard Tibetan pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters .
IPA
Tibetan
English approximation
Consonants
b
བ
b og ([p] on a low tone)
c
ཀྱ
sk ew
cʰ
ཁྱ གྱ
c ute
ɕ
ཞ ཤ
sh eep
d
ད
d og ([t] on a low tone)
ɖ ~ ɖʐ
གྲ
dr aw ([ʈ] ~[ʈʂ] on a low tone)
dz
ཛ
adz ([ts] on a low tone)
dʑ
ཇ
j eep ([tɕ] on a low tone)
ɡ
ག
g one ([k] on a low tone)
h
ཧ
h ead
j
ཡ
y es
ɟ
གྱ
arg ue ([c] on a low tone)
k
ཀ
sc at
kʰ
ཁ ག
c at
l
ལ
l eap
l̥
ལྷ
(voiceless l , like hl )
m
མ
m oon
n
ན
n oon
ɲ
ཉ
cany on
ŋ
ང
song
p
པ
sp in
pʰ
ཕ བ
p in
ɹ
ར
the r in drink
ɹ̥
རྷ
(voiceless r , like hr )
s
ཟ ས
s ong
ʂ
ཧྲ
like first part of shrew [ʂɹu]
t
ཏ
st op
tʰ
ད ཐ
t op
ʈ ~ ʈʂ
ཀྲ
str eam
ʈʰ ~ ʈʂʰ
ཁྲ གྲ
tr ack
tɕ
ཅ
beach
tɕʰ
ཇ ཆ
ch eer
ts
ཙ
cats
tsʰ
ཛ ཚ
ts unami
w
ཝ
w ater
z
ཟ
z oo ([s] on a low tone)
ʑ
ཞ
g enre ([ɕ] on a low tone)
ʔ
ཨ
oh-oh!
ʎ
ལྱ
Spanish castill a
ɥ
ཝཡ
French hu it (Between y et and w et)
ç
ཧྱ
similarly h uge
IPA
Tibetan
English approximation
Vowels
a
ཨ
between fa t and fa ther
e
ཨེ
Spanish e (in Sp. open syllables)
ɛ
ཨ
be d
i
ཨི
see
ɪ
ཨི
si t but more centralised
o
ཨོ
Spanish o (in Sp. open syllables)
ø
ཨོ
French eu , German ö
ɔ
ཨོ
o ff
œ
ཨོ
Danish ø
u
ཨུ
moo n
ʊ
ཨུ
goo d but more centralised
y
ཨུ
French u, German ü
ʏ
ཨུ
Dutch u
◌̃
nasal vowel
Tones
IPA
Description
sí
high level: si˥
sî
high falling: si˥˧
sǐ
low rising: si˩˧
sì
low level: si˩
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