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Help:IPA/Dzongkha

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

See Dzongkha for a more thorough look at the sounds of Dzongkha.

IPA Examples English approximation
Consonants
b boot
d do
dz bids
jeans
f fool
ɡ goo
ɣ between go and ahead
h head
j yes
k school
ཁ ག cool
l look
ɬ ལྷ schlep
m moon
n noon
ŋ sing
ɲ canyon
p spit
p ཕ བ pit
r American atom
s soup
ɕ sheet
t stool
ད ཐ tool
ʈ ཀྲ dr'ool
ʈʰ ཁྲ གྲ true
ts cats
tsʰ ཛ ཚ cat's head
beach
tɕʰ ཇ ཆ chip
w water
z zoo
ʑ Asia
IPA Examples English approximation
Vowels
ཨཱ father
ɛː ཨཱེ bed
æː ཨཱཻ bad
ɐ cut
ཨེཾ Indic play
ɛ ཨེ met
ཨཱི need
øː ཨོ roughly like nurse
ཨུ roughly like news
ɪ ཨི sit
ཨཱོ chore
ɔ ཨོ cough
ཨཱུ moon
ʊ ཨུ foot
Tone
◌́ high tone
◌̀ low tone

See also

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