This is a proposed alphabet that is meant to be used for writing of Tibetan. It is now in a very early stage of development, so some changes may occur to it in the future as the creator see fit. For any questions please use the email link below.

Lhoka/ལ་ཏིན་བོད་སྐད།
The Sikkimese Latin alphabet

Devised by: Michael Fustumum (michaelpeterfustumum(at)gmail.com)

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Latin letter

 Tibetan letter

IPA
1

A a

 ཨ

[ɐ]
2

B b

 བ

[b/p̀ʱ]
3

C c

 ཙ

[t͡s]
4 Ch ch ཚ [t͡sʰ]
5 Ć ć ཅ

[t͡ɕ]
6 Ćh ćh ཆ [t͡ɕʰ]
7

D d

 ད

[d/t̀ʱ]
8 Ḍ ḍ དྲ [ɖ/ʈ̀ʱ]
9

E e

 ཨེ

[e/ɛ]
10

G g

 ག

[g/k̀ʱ]
11

H h

 ཧ

[h]
12

I i

 ཨི

[i]
13

J j

 ཛ

[d͡z/ts̀ʱ]
14 J´ j´ ཇ [d͡ʑ/tɕ̀ʱ]
15

K k

 ཀ

[k]
16 Kh kh ཁ [kʰ]
17

L l

 ལ

[l/l̥]
18

M m

 མ

[m/m̥]
19

N n

 ན

[n/n̥]
20 Ñ ñ ཉ [n~ɲ]
21 Ŋ ŋ ང [ŋ/ŋ̥]
22

O o

 ཨོ

[o/ø]
23

P p

 པ

[p]
24 Ph ph ཕ [pʰ]
25

R r

 ར

[r~ɹ~ɾ/r̥]
26

S s

 ས

[s]
27

Ś ś

 ཤ

[ɕ]
28

T t

 ཏ

[t]
29 Th th ཐ [tʰ]
30 Ṭ ṭ ཏྲ [ʈ]
31 Ṭh ṭh ཐྲ [ʈʰ]
32

U u

 ཨུ

[u/y]
33 W w ཝ [w]
34 X x འ [ʔ]
35 Y y ཡ [j]
36 Z z ཟ [z/s]
37 Ź ź ཞ [ʑ/ɕ]
There would not be letters f, q, v, which would be replaced by ph, k, b, respectively.

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