Language/Tibetan/Pronunciation/Alphabet-and-Pronunciation
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Tibetan is Tibetic language spoken mainly in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, and also in parts of India and Nepal. According to the 1990 census, there are 1.2 million speakers of Standard Tibetan, which is also known as Lhasa Tibetan, and is the Tibetic language with the most speakers.
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/ |