Help: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 Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.

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 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 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 oh-oh! ʎ ལྱ Spanish castilla ɥ ཝཡ French huit (Between yet and wet) ç ཧྱ similarly huge

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 u ཨུ cool ʊ ཨུ good y ཨུ roughly like root (some dialects); French tu, German über ʏ ཨུ like sit but with the lips rounded; German fünf ◌̃ nasal vowel Tones IPA Description sí high level: si˥ sî high falling: si˥˧ sǐ low rising: si˩˧ sì low level: si˩

See also

• Category:Pages with Standard Tibetan IPA (91)