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Tibetan Consonant Guide

The document summarizes the 30 consonants of the spoken Tibetan language. It is organized into 8 rows and 4 columns based on tone. The columns are labeled masculine, neutral, feminine, and very feminine tones. Each consonant is listed with its Tibetan character and phonetic spelling. The tones of some letters in the third column are modified when additional letters are added.

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Tibetan Consonant Guide

The document summarizes the 30 consonants of the spoken Tibetan language. It is organized into 8 rows and 4 columns based on tone. The columns are labeled masculine, neutral, feminine, and very feminine tones. Each consonant is listed with its Tibetan character and phonetic spelling. The tones of some letters in the third column are modified when additional letters are added.

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Spoken Tibetan Basics

The 30 Consonants
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4
Masculine Neutral Feminine Very Feminine
High short tone High aspirated tone Low aspirated tone Low tone

ཀ་ ཁ་ ག་ ང་
Row 1
Ka Kha Kha (Ga)* Nga

ཅ་ ཆ་ ཇ་ ཈་
Row 2
Cha Chha Cha (Ja)* Nya
ཎ་ ཏ་ ཐ་ དྷ་
Row 3
Ta Tha Tha (Da)* Na
ན་ པ་ ཕ་ བྷ་
Row 4
Pa Pha Pha (Ba)* Ma
མ་ ཙ་ ཚ་ ཛྷ་
Row 5
Tsa Tsha Dza Wa

All Feminine

ཝ་ ཞ་ ཟ་ འ་
Row 6
Sha Sa Ah Ya
Throat tones Low tone Low tone Low tone Low tone

ཡ་ ར་ ལ་ ཥ་
Row 7
Ra La Sha Sa
Low tone Low tone High tone High tone

ས་ ཧ་
Row 8
Ha Ah
High aspirated tone High tone

* The tones of 3rd column letters on rows 1-6 are modified when a superscribed letter
is added on top or a prefix letter is added in front of the root letter.

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