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 ALPHABETICAL PLAN OF THE TIBETAN LANGUAGE,

དབྱངས་ལྔ (yāng nga).

The five vowels:

ཨ་ཨི་ཨུ་ཨེ་ཨོ། a, i, u, e, o.

The four vowel signs that are attached to the basic letter w are called gi-gü, shabkyü, ḍeng-bü and nāro:

ི ུ ེ ོ། i, u, e, o.

siim-chu).

The thirty consonants:

ཀ་ཁ་ག་ང་།  ཅ་ཆ་ཇ་ཉ།   ཏ་ཐ་ད་ན།

ka, kha, ga, m. ca, cha, ja, na. ta, tha, da, na.

པ་ཕ་བ་མ།  ཙ་ཚ་ཛ་ཝ།   ཞ་ཟ་འ་ཡ།

pa, pha, ba, ma. tsa, tsha, dta, wa. sha, sa, ha, ya.

ར་ལ་ཤ་ས།  ཧ་ཨ།

ra, la, fa, sa. ha, a.

The Dictionary order of the Tibetan letters, with their Indo-Romanic equivalents and their pronunciation exemplified by English words:

ཀ k in kill, seek ཁ P Teh ink-horn. ག 9 gun> go, dog. ང (=0),, sing, king. ཅ c(=cA)in porch. ཆ cA(=cM),, church-hill. ཇ j jet, jump. ཉ (=) singe. 1 c