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| IPA | Tibetan | English approximation |
|---|
| Consonants |
| b |
བ |
bog ([p] on a low tone) |
| c |
ཀྱ |
skew |
| cʰ |
ཁྱ གྱ |
cute |
| ɕ |
ཞ ཤ |
sheep |
| d |
ད |
dog ([t] on a low tone) |
| ɖ ~ ɖʐ |
གྲ |
draw ([ʈ]~[ʈʂ] on a low tone) |
| dz |
ཛ |
adz ([ts] on a low tone) |
| dʑ |
ཇ | jeep ([tɕ] on a low tone) |
| ɡ |
ག |
gone ([k] on a low tone) |
| h |
ཧ | head |
| j |
ཡ | yes |
| ɟ |
གྱ |
argue ([c] on a low tone) |
| k |
ཀ | scat |
| kʰ |
ཁ ག | cat |
| l |
ལ | leap |
| l̥ |
ལྷ | (voiceless l, like hl) |
| m |
མ | moon |
| n |
ན | noon |
| ɲ |
ཉ | canyon |
| ŋ |
ང | song |
| p |
པ | spin |
| pʰ |
ཕ བ | pin |
| ɹ |
ར | drink |
| ɹ̥ |
རྷ | (voiceless r, like hr) |
| s |
ཟ ས | song |
| ʂ |
ཧྲ | like first part of shrew [ʂɹu] |
| t |
ཏ | stop |
| tʰ |
ད ཐ | top |
| ʈ ~ ʈʂ |
ཀྲ | stream |
| ʈʰ ~ ʈʂʰ |
ཁྲ གྲ | track |
| tɕ |
ཅ | beach |
| tɕʰ |
ཇ ཆ | cheer |
| ts |
ཙ | cats |
| tsʰ |
ཛ ཚ | tsunami |
| w |
ཝ | water |
| z |
ཟ | zoo ([s] on a low tone) |
| ʑ |
ཞ | genre ([ɕ] on a low tone) |
| ʔ |
ཨ | uh-oh |
| ʎ |
ལྱ | Spanish castilla |
| ɥ |
ཝཡ | French huit (Between yet and wet) |
| ç |
ཧྱ | similarly huge |
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| IPA |
Tibetan | English approximation |
|---|
| Vowels |
| a |
ཨ |
between fat and father |
| e |
ཨེ |
day |
| ɛ |
ཨ |
bed |
| i |
ཨི |
see |
| ɪ |
ཨི |
sit |
| o |
ཨོ |
story |
| ø |
ཨོ |
RP rural |
| ɔ |
ཨོ |
off |
| œ |
ཨོ |
furry; French sœur |
| u |
ཨུ |
cool |
| ʊ |
ཨུ |
good |
| y |
ཨུ |
roughly like root (some dialects)[1]; French tu, German über |
| ʏ |
ཨུ |
like sit but with the lips rounded; German fünf |
| ◌̃ |
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nasal vowel |
| Tones |
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| IPA | Description |
| sí |
high level: si˥ |
| sî |
high falling: si˥˧ |
| sǐ |
low rising: si˩˧ |
| sì |
low level: si˩ |
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