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- Tibetan is spoken mainly in Tibet, and also in parts of India and Nepal.
- There are 1.2 million speakers of Standard Tibetan, also known as Lhasa Tibetan, the Tibetic language with the most speakers.
In this lesson, you will learn how to write and pronounce the Tibetan alphabet.
Consonants
| Letter | Name | IPA |
|---|---|---|
| ཀ | ka | /ka/ |
| ཁ | Ka | /kʰa̤/ |
| ག | ga | /ɡa/ |
| ང | n̰a | /ŋa/ |
| ཅ | ca | /tɕa/ |
| ཆ | Ca | /tɕʰa̤/ |
| ཇ | ja | /dʑa/ |
| ཉ | ña | /ɲa/ |
| ཏ | ta | /ta/ |
| ཐ | Ta | /tʰa̤/ |
| ད | da | /da/ |
| ན | na | /na/ |
| པ | pa | /pa/ |
| ཕ | Pa | /pʰa̤/ |
| བ | ba | /ba/ |
| མ | ma | /ma/ |
| ཙ | tsa | /tsa/ |
| ཚ | TSa | /tsʰa̤/ |
| ཛ | dza | /dza/ |
| ཝ | wa | /wa/ |
| ཞ | ža | /ʒa/ |
| ཟ | za | /za/ |
| འ | 'a | /ʔ̬a/ |
| ཡ | ya | /ja/ |
| ར | ra | /ra/ |
| ལ | la | /la/ |
| ཤ | ša | /ʃa/ |
| ས | sa | /sa/ |
| ཧ | ha | /ha̤/ |
| ཨ | a | /a/ |
Vowels
| Diacritic | ◌ | ི | ུ | ེ | ོ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | a | i | u | e | o |
| IPA | /a/ | /ɪ/ | /ʊ/ | /ɛ/ | /ɔ/ |