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Dzongkha Alphabet
Tibetan Script
Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan, is written in the Tibetan script. It is closely related to classical Tibetan. The script is an abugida where consonants carry an inherent 'a' vowel.
Consonants (གསལ་བྱེད་)
| Character | Name | Romanization | Pronunciation |
|---|---|---|---|
| ཀ | Ka | k | like 'k' in 'king' |
| ཁ | Kha | kh | aspirated k |
| ག | Ga | g | like 'g' in 'go' |
| ང | Nga | ng | like 'ng' in 'sing' |
| ཅ | Ca | c | like 'ch' in 'church' |
| ཆ | Cha | ch | aspirated ch |
| ཇ | Ja | j | like 'j' in 'jam' |
| ཉ | Nya | ny | like 'ny' in 'canyon' |
| ཏ | Ta | t | like 't' in 'top' |
| ཐ | Tha | th | aspirated t |
| ད | Da | d | like 'd' in 'day' |
| ན | Na | n | like 'n' in 'no' |
| པ | Pa | p | like 'p' in 'park' |
| ཕ | Pha | ph | aspirated p |
| བ | Ba | b | like 'b' in 'ball' |
| མ | Ma | m | like 'm' in 'moon' |
| ཙ | Tsa | ts | like 'ts' in 'bits' |
| ཚ | Tsha | tsh | aspirated ts |
| ཛ | Dza | dz | like 'ds' in 'kids' |
| ཝ | Wa | w | like 'w' in 'wet' |
| ཞ | Zha | zh | like 's' in 'measure' |
| ཟ | Za | z | like 'z' in 'zone' |
| འ | A (aspirate) | ' | breathy glottal |
| ཡ | Ya | y | like 'y' in 'yes' |
| ར | Ra | r | rolled r |
| ལ | La | l | like 'l' in 'love' |
| ཤ | Sha | sh | like 'sh' in 'shoe' |
| ས | Sa | s | like 's' in 'sun' |
| ཧ | Ha | h | like 'h' in 'hat' |
| ཨ | A (base) | a | like 'a' in 'father' |
Vowel Marks (དབྱངས་)
| Character | Name | Romanization | Pronunciation |
|---|---|---|---|
| ཀི | Ki (i) | i | like 'ee' in 'see' |
| ཀུ | Ku (u) | u | like 'oo' in 'moon' |
| ཀེ | Ke (e) | e | like 'a' in 'lake' |
| ཀོ | Ko (o) | o | like 'o' in 'go' |