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Dzongkha alphabet - Bhutan
Dzongkha (རྫོང་ཁ་) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by over 500,000 people in Bhutan. It uses the Tibetan script:
Once you've tackled this subject, you may be eager to discover these connected themes: Dzongkha Pronunciation, Dzongkha.
Consonants[edit | edit source]
Letter | IPA |
---|---|
ཀ | /ka/ |
ཁ | /kʰa̤/ |
ག | /ɡa/ |
ང | /ŋa/ |
ཅ | /tʃa/ |
ཆ | /tʃʰa̤/ |
ཇ | /dʒa/ |
ཉ | /ɲa/ |
ཏ | /ta/ |
ཐ | /tʰa̤/ |
ད | /da/ |
ན | /na/ |
པ | /pa/ |
ཕ | /pʰa̤/ |
བ | /ba/ |
མ | /ma/ |
ཙ | /tsa/ |
ཚ | /tsʰa̤/ |
ཛ | /dza/ |
ཝ | /wa/ |
ཞ | /ʑa/ |
ཟ | /za/ |
འ | /ɦa/ |
ཡ | /ja/ |
ར | /ra/ |
ལ | /la/ |
ཤ | /ɕa/ |
ས | /sa/ |
ཧ | /ha̤/ |
ཨ | /ʔa/ |
Vowels[edit | edit source]
Diacritic | ◌ | ི | ུ | ེ | ོ |
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IPA | /a/ | /ɪ/ | /ʊ/ | /ɛ/ | /ɔ/ |
Videos[edit | edit source]
Dzongkha alphabet - Bhutan[edit | edit source]
The Sound of the Bhutanese / Dzongkha language[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
https://prezi.com/7upe7sgru22m/asian-country-project-bhutan/