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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:
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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 | ◌ | ི | ུ | ེ | ོ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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/