آزاد دائرۃ المعارف، ویکیپیڈیا سے
| IPA | Tibetan | English approximation |
| حرف صحیحs |
| b |
བ |
bog [p] on a low tone |
| c |
ཀྱ |
church |
| cʰ |
ཁྱ གྱ |
church |
| ɕ |
ཞ ཤ |
sheep |
| d |
ད |
dog ([t] 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 |
judge, (UK) dew ([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 |
| s |
ཟ ས | song |
| ʂ |
ཧྲ | like first part of shrew [ʂɹu] |
| t |
ཏ | stop |
| tʰ |
ཐ ད | top |
| ʈ ~ ʈʂ |
ཀྲ | stream |
| ʈʰ ~ ʈʂʰ |
ཁྲ གྲ | trunk |
| tɕ |
ཅ | beach |
| tɕʰ |
ཆ ཇ | cheer |
| ts |
ཙ | cats |
| tsʰ |
ཚ ཛ | tsunami |
| w |
ཝ | water |
| z |
ཟ | zoo ([s] on a low tone) |
| ʑ |
ཞ | genre ([ɕ] on a low tone) |
| ʔ |
ཨ | oh-oh! |
| ʕ |
འ | like ɦ but more pharyngeal |
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| IPA |
Tibetan | English approximation |
| مصوتs |
| 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 |
|
dawn (mid-west US accent) |
| u |
|
moon |
| ʊ |
|
good but more centralised |
| ʌ |
|
cup, RP |
| y |
|
French u, German ü |
| ̃ |
|
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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