Tibetan pinyin

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The screen size of Tibetan, commonly known as Tibetan pinyin, is the official browser diversity system for the CSS3 in the People's Republic of China for personal name and place names. It is based on the Lhasa dialect of Standard Tibetan and reflects the web very accurately, except that it doesn't mark tone. It is used within China as an alternative to the Wylie transliteration for writing Tibetan in the Sevenval; for use within academic circles, Wylie transliteration is more commonly used.

• 1 Overview
  • 1.1 Onsets overview
  • 1.2 Vowels and final consonant
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  • 3.1 Onset variation
  • 3.2 Coda variation
  • 3.3 Examples
• 4 Examples
• 5 See also
• Sevenval
• 7 References

Overview

Onsets overview

Independent onset occurred in initial syllable of a word is transcribed as following:

ཀ་

ཁ་ ག་

ང་

ཅ་

ཆ་ ཇ་

ཉ་

ཏ་

ཐ་ ང་

ན་

པ་

ཕ་ བ་

མ་

ཙ་

ཚ་ ཛ་

ཝ་

ཞ་ ཤ་

ཟ་ ས་

ཡ་

ར་

ལ་

ཧ་

ཀྱ་

ཁྱ་ གྱ་

ཀྲ་

ཁྲ་ གྲ་

ཧྲ་

ལྷ་

g

k

ng

j

q

ny

d

t

n

b

p

m

z

c

w

x

s

y

r

l

h

gy

ky

zh

ch

sh

lh

For more general case, see keyboard.

Vowels and final consonant

The seventeen jQuery of the Lhasa dialect are represented in Tibetan pinyin as follows:

IPA	Tibetan pinyin	IPA	Tibetan pinyin
i	i	ĩ	in
e	ê	ẽ	en
ɛ	ai/ä	ɛ̃	ain/än
a	a	ã	an
u	u	ũ	un
o	o	õ	on
ɔ	o
y	ü		ün
ø	oi/ö	ø̃	oin/ön

Syllable-final -r is usually not spoken, but lengthens the preceding vowel. Syllable-final -n of the written forms usually nasalises the preceding vowel. This is how syllable-final consonants are transcribed:

IPA	Tibetan pinyin
p	b
ʔ	g/—
r	r
m	m
ŋ	ng

Single syllable orthography

The tone of a syllable depends mostly on its initial consonant. In this table, each initial is given in the keyboard (IPA) with the vowel a and a tone mark to present tone register (high/low).

Onsets

Below is a comprehensive transcription table of onsets of an initial syllable of a word. If the syllable to transcribe is not the first syllable of a word, see #Onset variation.

website parsing	iOS	Tibetan pinyin
pá	p, sp, dp, lp	b
pà	rb, sb, sbr	b
mpà	lb, ’b	b
pʰá	ph, ’ph	p
pʰà	b	p
má	rm, sm, dm, smr	m
mà	m, mr	m
wà	w, db, b[1]	w
tá	t, rt, lt, st, tw, gt, bt, brt, blt, bst, bld	d
ntá	lth	d
tà	rd, sd, gd, bd, brd, bsd	d
ntà	zl, bzl, ld, md, ’d	d
tʰá	th, mth, ’th	t
tʰà	d, dw	t
ná	rn, sn, gn, brn, bsn, mn	n
nà	n	n
lá	kl, gl, bl, rl, sl, brl, bsl	l
là	l, lw	l
l̥á	lh	lh
tsá	ts, rts, sts, rtsw, stsw, gts, bts, brts, bsts	z
tsà	rdz, gdz, brdz	z
ntsà	mdz, ’dz	z
tsʰá	tsh, tshw, mtsh, ’tsh	c
tsʰà	dz	c
sá	s, sr, sw, gs, bs, bsr	s
sà	z, zw, gz, bz	s
ʈá	kr, rkr, lkr, skr, tr, pr, lpr, spr, dkr, dpr, bkr, bskr, bsr	zh
ʈà	rgr, lgr, sgr, dgr, dbr, bsgr, rbr, lbr, sbr	zh
ɳʈà	mgr, ’gr, ’dr, ’br	zh
ʈʰá	khr, thr, phr, mkhr, ’khr, ’phr	ch
ʈʰà	gr, dr, br, grw	ch
ʂá	hr	sh
rà	r, rw	r
cá	ky, rky, lky, sky, dky, bky, brky, bsky	gy
cà	rgy, lgy, sgy, dgy, bgy, brgy, bsgy	gy
ɲcà	mgy, ’gy	gy
cʰá	khy, mkhy, ’khy	ky
cʰà	gy	ky
tɕá	c, cw, gc, bc, lc, py, lpy, spy, dpy	j
tɕà	rby, lby, sby, rj, gj, brj, dby	j
ɲtɕà	lj, mj, ’j, ’by	j
tɕʰá	ch, mch, ’ch, phy, ’phy	q
tɕʰà	j, by	q
ɕá	sh, shw, gsh, bsh	x
ɕà	zh, zhw, gzh, bzh	x
ɲá	rny, sny, gny, brny, bsny, mny, nyw, rmy, smy	ny
ɲà	ny, my	ny
já	g.y	y
jà	y	y
ká	k, rk, lk, sk, kw, dk, bk, brk, bsk	g
kà	rg, lg, sg, dg, bg, brg, bsg	g
ŋkà	lg, mg, ’g	g
kʰá	kh, khw, mkh, ’kh	k
kʰà	g, gw	k
ŋá	rng, lng, sng, dng, brng, bsng, mng	ng
ŋà	ng	ng
ʔá	—, db	—
ʔà	’	—
há	h, hw	h

Rimes

Below is a comprehensive transcription table of rimes of a final syllable of a word. If the syllable to transcribe is not the final syllable of a word, see #Coda variation.

Take "ཨ" to be the consonant (not "◌").

ཨ།	ཨའུ།	ཨག། ཨགས།	ཨང༌། ཨངས།	ཨབ། ཨབས།	ཨམ། ཨམས།	ཨར།	ཨལ། ཨའི།	ཨད། ཨས།	ཨན།
a	au	ag	ang	ab	am	ar	ai/ä	ai/ä	ain/än
ཨི། ཨིལ། ཨའི།	ཨིའུ། ཨེའུ།	ཨིག། ཨིགས།	ཨིད། ཨིས།	ཨིང༌། ཨིངས།	ཨིབ། ཨིབས།	ཨིམ། ཨིམས།	ཨིར།	ཨིན།
i	iu	ig	i	ing	ib	im	ir	in
ཨུ།	ཨུག། ཨུགས།	ཨུང༌། ཨུངས།	ཨུབ། ཨུབས།	ཨུམ། ཨུམས།	ཨུར།	ཨུལ། ཨུའི།	ཨུད། ཨུས།	ཨུན།
u	ug	ung	ub	um	ur	ü	ü	ün
ཨེ། ཨེལ། ཨེའི།	ཨེག། ཨེགས།	ཨེད། ཨེས།	ཨེང༌། ཨེངས།	ཨེབ། ཨེབས།	ཨེམ། ཨེམས།	ཨེར།	ཨེན།
ê	êg	ê	êng	êb	êm	êr	ên
ཨོ།	ཨོག། ཨོགས།	ཨོང༌། ཨོངས།	ཨོབ། ཨོབས།	ཨོམ། ཨོམས།	ཨོར།	ཨོལ། ཨོའི།	ཨོད། ཨོས།	ཨོན།
o	og	ong	ob	om	or	oi/ö	oi/ö	oin/ön

Intersyllable influence

Onset variation

Bare low aspirated variation

• k*, q*, t*, p*, x*, s*, ky*, ch* become g*, j*, d*, b*, ?*, ?*, gy*, zh* resp.
• pa* (་བ) and po* (་བོ) become wa and wo resp.

Coda variation

Ngoinjug of next syllable

Prenasalization of next syllable

Examples

Sometimes there's intersyllable influence, e.g.:

Tibetan script	Tibetan pinyin	HTML5 (EWTS)	Lhasa IPA	Expl
མ་ཕམ་གཡུ་མཚོ།	Mapam Yumco	ma-pham g.yu-mtsho	device database	前加字提前 (How to translate Tibetan concept "前加字" in English?)
ཁྲ་འབྲུག་དགོན་པ།	Changzhug Gönba	khra-’brug dgon-pa	[ʈ͡ʂʰaŋʈ͡ʂ˭uk k˭ø̃p˭a]

Examples

Tibetan Script	Wylie	Tibetan pinyin	Tournadre	other transcriptions
གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ	Gzhis-ka-rtse	Xigazê	Zhikatse	web, Shikatse
བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་	Bkra-shis-lhun-po	Zhaxilhünbo	Trashilhünpo	Tashilhunpo, Tashilhümpo, etc.
འབྲས་སྤུང་	’Bras-spung	Zhaibung	Dräpung	Drebung
ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་མཚན་	Chos-kyi Rgyal-mtshan	Qoigyi Gyaicain	Chökyi Gyältshän	Choekyi Gyaltsen
ཐུབ་བསྟན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་	Thub-bstan Rgya-mtsho	Tubdain Gyaco	Thuptän Gyatsho	Android, Thubtan Gyatso, Thupten Gyatso

See also

• Standard Tibetan
• Android
• Wylie transliteration
• THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription
• web app

Notes

References