विकिपीडिया:IPA for Tibetan

मुक्त ज्ञानकोश विकिपीडिया से

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Standard Tibetan pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.

IPA Tibetan English approximation
Consonants
b bog [p] on a low tone
c church
church
ɕ ཞ ཤ sheep
d dog ([t] on a low tone)
dz adz ([ts] on a low tone)
jeep ([tɕ] on a low tone)
ɡ gone ([k] on a low tone)
h head
j yes
ɟ judge, (UK) dew ([c] on a low tone)
k scat
ཁ ག cat
l leap
(voiceless l, like hl)
m moon
n noon
ɲ canyon
ŋ song
p spin
ཕ བ pin
ɹ the r in drink
s ཟ ས song
ʂ like first part of shrew [ʂɹu]
t stop
ཐ ད top
ʈ ~ ʈʂ stream
ʈʰ ~ ʈʂʰ trunk
beach
tɕʰ ཆ ཇ cheer
ts cats
tsʰ ཚ ཛ tsunami
w water
z zoo ([s] on a low tone)
ʑ genre ([ɕ] on a low tone)
ʔ oh-oh!
ʕ like ɦ but more pharyngeal
IPA Tibetan English approximation
Vowels
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
y French u, German ü
̃ nasal vowel
Tones
IPA Description
high level: si˥
high falling: si˥˧
low rising: si˩˧
low level: si˩