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.

Latin bod skad/ལ་ཏིན་བོད་སྐད།
The Tibetan Latin alphabet

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

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Latin letter

 Tibetan letter

IPA
1

A a

 ཨ

[a/ʌ]
2

B b

 བ

[b/ph]
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/th]
8

E e

 ཨེ

[e/ɛ/�]
9

G g

 ག

[g/kh]
10

H h

 ཧ

[h]
11

I i

 ཨི

[i/ɪ]
12

J j

 ཛ

[d͡z/t͡sh]
13 J� j� ཇ [d͡ʑ/t͡ɕh]
14

K k

 ཀ

[k]
15 Kh kh ཁ [kh]
16

L l

 ལ

[l]
17

M m

 མ

[m]
18

N n

 ན

[n]
19 � � ཉ [ɲ]
20 Ŋ ŋ ང [ŋ]
21

O o

 ཨོ

[o/ɔ]
22

P p

 པ

[p]
23 Ph ph ཕ [ph]
24

R r

 ར

[r]
25

S s

 ས

[s]
26

Ś ś

 ཤ

[ɕ]
27

T t

 ཏ

[t]
28 Th th ཐ [th]
29

U u

 ཨུ

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

Text example
 First article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Xgro ba mī rigs rgyud yoṅs la skyes cam �id nas ćhe mthoṅs daṅ, thob thṅgi raṅ dbaṅ xdra m�am du yod la  khoṅ chor raṅ byuṅ gi blo rcal daṅ bsam chul bzaṅ po xdon paxi os babs kyaṅ yod de bźin phan chun  gćig gis gćig la bu spun gyi xdu śes xdzin paxi bya spyod kyaṅ lag len bstar dgos pa yin.

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