Chapter 2: Tibetan Letters and Scripts

tibetan uchen (standard script used in this book) and ume script, along with latin transcriptions of each letter
“Uchen and Umê scripts” by Goran tek-en is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Chapter Goals

  1. You will learn frequent expressions.
  2. You will learn the ten suffix letters with vowels.
  3. You will learn the two post suffix letters with vowels.
  4. You will learn how to identify the superscript letters.

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