Chapter 1: Tibetan Letters and Scripts

Table of Tibetan letters and their articulatory properties
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Chapter Goals

  1. You will pronounce and write Tibetan consonants and vowel letters.
  2. You will learn aspiration and tone.
  3. You will conjugate vowels with consonants.
  4. You will conjugate suffix letters with consonants.
  5. You will learn some frequent expressions.

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