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    Jesse Ventura

    The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Standard Tibetan pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.

    IPA Tibetan English approximation
    Consonants
    b བ bog ([p] on a low tone)
    c ཀྱ skew
    cʰ ཁྱ གྱ cute
    ɕ ཞ ཤ sheep
    d ད dog ([t] on a low tone)
    ɖ ~ ɖʐ གྲ draw ([ʈ]~[ʈʂ] on a low tone)
    dz ཛ adz ([ts] on a low tone)
    dʑ ཇ jeep ([tɕ] on a low tone)
    ɡ ག gone ([k] on a low tone)
    h ཧ head
    j ཡ yes
    ɟ གྱ argue ([c] on a low tone)
    k ཀ scat
    kʰ ཁ ག cat
    l ལ leap
    l̥ ལྷ (voiceless l, like hl)
    m མ moon
    n ན noon
    ɲ ཉ canyon
    ŋ ང song
    p པ spin
    pʰ ཕ བ pin
    ɹ ར drink
    ɹ̥ རྷ (voiceless r, like hr)
    s ཟ ས song
    ʂ ཧྲ like first part of shrew [ʂɹu]
    t ཏ stop
    tʰ ད ཐ top
    ʈ ~ ʈʂ ཀྲ stream
    ʈʰ ~ ʈʂʰ ཁྲ གྲ track
    tɕ ཅ beach
    tɕʰ ཇ ཆ cheer
    ts ཙ cats
    tsʰ ཛ ཚ tsunami
    w ཝ water
    z ཟ zoo ([s] on a low tone)
    ʑ ཞ genre ([ɕ] on a low tone)
    ʔ ཨ oh-oh!
    ʎ ལྱ Spanish castilla
    ɥ ཝཡ French huit (Between yet and wet)
    ç ཧྱ similarly huge
    IPA Tibetan English approximation
    Vowels
    a ཨ between fat and father
    e ཨེ day
    ɛ ཨ bed
    i ཨི see
    ɪ ཨི sit
    o ཨོ story
    ø ཨོ RP rural
    ɔ ཨོ off
    œ ཨོ furry; French sœur
    u ཨུ cool
    ʊ ཨུ good
    y ཨུ roughly like root (some dialects)[1]; French tu, German über
    ʏ ཨུ like sit but with the lips rounded; German fünf
    ◌̃ nasal vowel
    Tones
    IPA Description
    sí high level: si˥
    sî high falling: si˥˧
    sǐ low rising: si˩˧
    sì low level: si˩

    Notes

    1. ^ These dialects include modern Received Pronunciation and most forms of English English (with some exceptions such as Yorkshire), Australian, New Zealand, White South African, Scottish, Ulster, Southern American, Midland American, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Western Pennsylvania and California English. Other dialects of English, such as Northern American, New York City, New England, African American Vernacular, Welsh and Republic of Ireland English, have no close equiavalent vowel.

    See also

    Credit: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Tibetan

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