ފަންވަތް:IPA key

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

{{IPA-bo}} and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation#Entering IPA characters § Notes.

IPA Tibetan English approximation
Consonants
b bog [p]

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c ཀྱ church
ཁྱ གྱ church
ɕ ཞ ཤ sheep
d dog ([t]

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ɖ ~ ɖʐ

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གྲ draw ([ʈ]

</noinclude>~[ʈʂ]

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dz adz ([ts]

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jeep ([tɕ]

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ɡ gone ([k]

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h head
j yes
ɟ གྱ judge, (UK) dew ([c]

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k scat
ཁ ག cat
l leap
ལྷ (voiceless l, like hl)
m moon
n noon
ɲ canyon
ŋ song
p spin
ཕ བ pin
ɹ the r in drink
ɹ̥ རྷ (voiceless r, like hr)
s ཟ ས song
ʂ ཧྲ like first part of shrew [ʂɹu]
t stop
ཐ ད top
ʈ ~ ʈʂ

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ཀྲ stream
ʈʰ ~ ʈʂʰ ཁྲ གྲ track
beach
tɕʰ ཆ ཇ cheer
ts cats
tsʰ ཚ ཛ tsunami
w water
z zoo ([s]

</noinclude> on a low tone)

ʑ genre ([ɕ]

</noinclude> on a low tone)

ʔ oh-oh!
ʕ like ɦ but more pharyngeal
ʎ ལྱ Spanish castilla
IPA Tibetan English approximation
Vowels
a between fat and father
e Spanish e (in Sp. open syllables)
ɛ bed
i see
ɪ sit but more centralised
o Spanish o (in Sp. open syllables)
ø French eu, German ö
ɔ off
œ Danish ø
u moon
ʊ good but more centralised
y French u, German ü
ʏ Dutch u
̃ nasal vowel
Tones
IPA Description

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high level: si˥

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high falling: si˥˧

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low rising: si˩˧

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low level: si˩

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