އެހީ:IPA/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

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

IPA Tibetan English approximation Consonants b བ bog [p] </noinclude> on a low tone c ཀྱ church cʰ ཁྱ གྱ church ɕ ཞ ཤ sheep d ད dog ([t] </noinclude> on a low tone) ɖ ~ ɖʐ </noinclude> གྲ draw ([ʈ] </noinclude>~[ʈʂ] </noinclude> on a low tone) dz ཛ adz ([ts] </noinclude> on a low tone) dʑ ཇ jeep ([tɕ] </noinclude> on a low tone) ɡ ག gone ([k] </noinclude> on a low tone) h ཧ head j ཡ yes ɟ གྱ judge, (UK) dew ([c] </noinclude> 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 the r in drink ɹ̥ རྷ (voiceless r, like hr) s ཟ ས song ʂ ཧྲ like first part of shrew [ʂɹu] t ཏ stop tʰ ཐ ད top ʈ ~ ʈʂ </noinclude> ཀྲ stream ʈʰ ~ ʈʂʰ ཁྲ གྲ track tɕ ཅ beach tɕʰ ཆ ཇ cheer ts ཙ cats tsʰ ཚ ཛ tsunami w ཝ water z ཟ zoo ([s] </noinclude> on a low tone) ʑ ཞ genre ([ɕ] </noinclude> on a low tone) ʔ ཨ oh-oh! ʕ འ 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 sí </noinclude> high level: si˥ </noinclude> sî </noinclude> high falling: si˥˧ </noinclude> sǐ </noinclude> low rising: si˩˧ </noinclude> sì </noinclude> low level: si˩ </noinclude>

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