User:Butsuri/Tibetan transcriptions

Comparison of Tournadre (Appendix 7) and THDL Simplified Phonetics
http://www.thdl.org/xml/showEssay.php?xml=/collections/langling/THDL_phonetics.xml&m=all

Consonants
Unaspirated: k, ', ky, tr, t, p, c, ts, r, s, sh, l, h, m, n, ny, ng, w, y.

Aspirated: kh, khy, thr, th, ph, ch, tsh, rh, lh. Aspirated consonants only appear word-initially.

Vowels
a, ä, e, ö, o, u, ü, i.

Tone
High or low tone is only marked on the first syllable of a word. High tone is marked with a macron over the vowel, low tone with a macron below. I.e. ngā vs nga̱.

Tone contours are unwritten except in the case of a sharply falling high tone on syllables with a final nasal, corresponding to a written final -s. This is represented with a final apostrophe (not to be confused with the apostrophe representing a glottal stop). E.g. Khām'‍, sāng'‍, sūng'‍.

Length
Long vowels are indicated by a following colon, :.

Geminate consonants
Doubled consonants sometimes appear within a word. These are pronounced identically to the un-doubled form, but indicate a lengthening, and a change in the tone contour, of the preceding vowel.