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[[Image:Sign OmManiPadmeHum.JPG|thumb|240px|The ''Om mani padme hum'' mantra in Tibetan]]
 
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'''Tibetan''' is the main language of [[Tibet]] and among Tibetan communities around the world.
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'''Tibetan''' is the main language of [[Tibet]], and its accompanying regions and among overseas Tibetan communities around the world. Tibetan is spoken by several million people in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) of the Chinese People’s Republic, the Chinese provinces of Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan and Yunnan, as well as the neighboring countries Bhutan (around 4,000 speakers), India (over 124,000 speakers), and Nepal (around 60,000 speakers). Written Tibetan is used as the religious language in the countries where Tibetan Lamaistic Buddhism is practiced (e.g. in Mongolia and parts of China proper). Tibetan communities also exist in Taiwan, Norway, Switzerland and the United States of America.
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==Pronunciation guide==
 
==Pronunciation guide==
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===Vowels===
 
===Vowels===
  
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; ཨ : Like "a" in "alone" (a).
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; ཨ : Like "a" in "alone"; like "a" in "cat" (a).
 
; ཷ : Like "aw" in "paw" (å).
 
; ཷ : Like "aw" in "paw" (å).
 
; ེ : Like "e" in "bet" (e).
 
; ེ : Like "e" in "bet" (e).
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; ཟ : Like "z" in "zoo" (z).
 
; ཟ : Like "z" in "zoo" (z).
 
; ཞ : Like "s" in "treasure" (ž).
 
; ཞ : Like "s" in "treasure" (ž).
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; ར : A throaty "r", not rolled (r).
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; ར : Must be trilled - just like Italian "r" (r).
 
; ས : Like "s" in "suck" (s).
 
; ས : Like "s" in "suck" (s).
 
; ཤ : Like "sh" in "shut" (š).
 
; ཤ : Like "sh" in "shut" (š).
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; FORBIDDEN : }}Jyed machogpa
 
; FORBIDDEN : }}Jyed machogpa
  
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; Hello. : Tashi deleg ()
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; Hello. : Tashi deleg (བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས)
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; Hello. (''informal'') : ()
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; Hello. (''informal'') : Demu (བདེ་མོ།)
 
; How are you? : Khye-rang ku-zug de-po yin-pe ()
 
; How are you? : Khye-rang ku-zug de-po yin-pe ()
 
; Fine, thank you. : De-po yin. Thug je che.
 
; Fine, thank you. : De-po yin. Thug je che.
 
; What is your name? : Khye-rang gi tshen-la ga-re zhu-gi yod? ()Or Khedrand ming Gangyin.
 
; What is your name? : Khye-rang gi tshen-la ga-re zhu-gi yod? ()Or Khedrand ming Gangyin.
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; My name is ______ . : Ngai ming ABC yin.
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; My name is ______ . : Ngai ming ___ yin.
 
; Nice to meet you. : Khye-rang jel-ney ga-po joong ()
 
; Nice to meet you. : Khye-rang jel-ney ga-po joong ()
 
; Please. : Thuk-je zig ()
 
; Please. : Thuk-je zig ()
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; Thank you. : Thuk-je-che ()
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; Thank you. : Thuk-je-che (ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ།)
 
; You're welcome. : ()Yin dang yin
 
; You're welcome. : ()Yin dang yin
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; Yes. : Red
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; Yes. : Red (རེད།)
 
; No. : Ma-red  
 
; No. : Ma-red  
 
; Excuse me.  
 
; Excuse me.  
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===Colors===
 
===Colors===
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    tseun dok ཚོན་མདོག
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Blue  སྔོན་པོ་
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    ngeun po
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Yellow སེར་པོ་
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    ser po
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Green  ལྗང་ཁུ་
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    jang koo
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Red  དམར་པོ་
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    mar po
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Brown
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    gyar mook
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Black  ནག་པོ་
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    nak po
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Orange ལི་ཝང་
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    li wang
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White  དཀར་པོ་
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    kar po
  
 
===Transportation===
 
===Transportation===
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===Eating===
 
===Eating===
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Bon appetit! ཞལ་ལག་མཉེས་པོ་ནང་གོ
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  shelak nye po nang ko
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delicious ཞིམ་པོ་ སྤྼོ་པོ་(H)
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  shimpo  t(r)opo (H)
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meal  གསོལ་ཚིགས
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  sol tsi'
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meal, food  ཁ་ལག  ཞལ་ལག
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  kalak, shelak
  
 
===Bars===
 
===Bars===
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{{outlinephrasebook}}
 
{{outlinephrasebook}}
 
{{phrasebookguide}}
 
{{phrasebookguide}}
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== Learning more ==
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* [http://www.wiki-babel.org/en/Lesson:Bod:1:Numbers_-_1_to_10 Listen to tibetan numbers on WikiBabel]

Latest revision as of 14:21, 15 January 2012

The Om mani padme hum mantra in Tibetan

Tibetan is the main language of Tibet, and its accompanying regions and among overseas Tibetan communities around the world. Tibetan is spoken by several million people in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) of the Chinese People’s Republic, the Chinese provinces of Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan and Yunnan, as well as the neighboring countries Bhutan (around 4,000 speakers), India (over 124,000 speakers), and Nepal (around 60,000 speakers). Written Tibetan is used as the religious language in the countries where Tibetan Lamaistic Buddhism is practiced (e.g. in Mongolia and parts of China proper). Tibetan communities also exist in Taiwan, Norway, Switzerland and the United States of America.


[edit] Pronunciation guide

Tibetan spelling and pronunciation diverged around the 11th century, and there is no widely agreed standard on how to spell phonetic Tibetan with the Latin alphabet.

[edit] Vowels

ཨ 
Like "a" in "alone"; like "a" in "cat" (a).
ཷ 
Like "aw" in "paw" (å).
ེ 
Like "e" in "bet" (e).
ི 
Like "i" in "in" (i).
ཱི 
Like "ee" in "seen" (í).
ོ 
Like "o" in "so" (ó).
ྲྀ 
Like "e" in "father" (ö).
ཱུ 
Like "ue" in "glue" (ú).
ུ 
Like "oo" in "soon" (ū).
ུ 
Like "ee" in "seen" but with rounded lips (ü).
ེ 
Like "ay" in "day" (ą).

[edit] Consonants

ཀ 
Like "k" in "skill" (k).
ག 
Like "g" in "garden" (g).
ང 
Like "ng" in "sing" (ng).
ཅ 
Like "ch" in "charge" (ç).
ཇ 
Like "j" in "jar" (j).
ཉ 
Like "ny" in "canyon" (ñ).
ཏ 
Like "t" in "stop" (t).
པ 
Like "p" in "spot" (p).
ཙ 
Like "ts" in "weights" (ţ).
ཛ 
Like "ds" in "adds" (ds).
ཟ 
Like "z" in "zoo" (z).
ཞ 
Like "s" in "treasure" (ž).
ར 
Must be trilled - just like Italian "r" (r).
ས 
Like "s" in "suck" (s).
ཤ 
Like "sh" in "shut" (š).

[edit] Common diphthongs

ཁ 
Like "k" in "kill" (kh).
ཆ 
Like "ch h" in "punch hard" (çh).
ཐ 
Like "t" in "time" (th).
ཕ 
Like "p" in "pit" (ph).
ཚ 
Like "ts h" in "fights hard" (ţh).

[edit] Phrase list

Some phrases in this phrasebook still need to be translated. If you know anything about this language, you can help by plunging forward and translating a phrase.

[edit] Basics

Common signs

OPEN 
Kha chad
CLOSED 
Kha gyabpa
ENTRANCE 
Go xhugsa
EXIT 
Go Dhonsa
PUSH 
Bigyar gyab
PULL 
Than
TOILET 
Sangchod
MEN 
Pho mi
WOMEN 
Mo mo
FORBIDDEN 
Jyed machogpa
Hello. 
Tashi deleg (བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས)
Hello. (informal) 
Demu (བདེ་མོ།)
How are you? 
Khye-rang ku-zug de-po yin-pe ()
Fine, thank you. 
De-po yin. Thug je che.
What is your name? 
Khye-rang gi tshen-la ga-re zhu-gi yod? ()Or Khedrand ming Gangyin.
My name is ______ . 
Ngai ming ___ yin.
Nice to meet you. 
Khye-rang jel-ney ga-po joong ()
Please. 
Thuk-je zig ()
Thank you. 
Thuk-je-che (ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ།)
You're welcome. 
()Yin dang yin
Yes. 
Red (རེད།)
No. 
Ma-red
Excuse me.

gong-pa-ma-tsom / gong-ta

I'm sorry. 
Gong dag
Goodbye 
Chagpo nang, as in take care

Shug dan ja (when other person is staying): kha-lay-pheb (when other person is going)

I can't speak name of language [well]. 

nga pö-kay yak-po kyab gi mey

Do you speak English? 

khye-rang yin-ji-kay rgyab thub gi yin pe?

Is there someone here who speaks English? 
Dhir Engi shenyan yod Pai.
Help! 
Rog pa jed
Look out! 
Phar toe
Good morning. 
ngado deleg
Good evening. 
gondo deleg
Good night. 
Sim shag nang
Good night
I don't understand. 
Nai she gyi med

ha kho gi mey

Where is the toilet? 

Sang chod gawa yod red.

[edit] Problems

[edit] Numbers

One 

  Chig

Two 

  Nyi

Three 

  Sum

Four 

  Zhi

Five 

  Nga

Six 

  Dug

Seven 

  Dun

Eight 

  Gyed

Nine 

  Gu

Ten 

  Chu

Twenty 

  Nyi-shu

Thirty 

  Sum-chu

Forty 

  Zhi-chu

Fifty 

  Nga-chu

One Hundred 

  Gya tham-pa

===Time===Due tsod

====Clock time====chutsod duetsod

====Duration====ring, kab

====Days====nyin ma

====Months====dawa

[edit] Writing time and date

yige dipai due dang tse

[edit] Colors

   tseun dok ཚོན་མདོག

Blue སྔོན་པོ་ 

   ngeun po

Yellow སེར་པོ་ 

   ser po

Green ལྗང་ཁུ་ 

   jang koo

Red དམར་པོ་ 

   mar po

Brown 

   gyar mook

Black ནག་པོ་ 

   nak po

Orange ལི་ཝང་ 

   li wang

White དཀར་པོ་ 

   kar po

[edit] Transportation

[edit] Bus and train

[edit] Directions

[edit] Taxi

[edit] Lodging

[edit] Money

[edit] Eating

Bon appetit! ཞལ་ལག་མཉེས་པོ་ནང་གོ 

 shelak nye po nang ko

delicious ཞིམ་པོ་ སྤྼོ་པོ་(H) 

 shimpo   t(r)opo (H)

meal གསོལ་ཚིགས 

 sol tsi'

meal, food ཁ་ལག ཞལ་ལག 

 kalak, shelak

[edit] Bars

[edit] Shopping

[edit] Driving

[edit] Authority

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