ALPHABET MATCHING GAME VOCABULARY FLASHCARDS
Why learn Tibetan?
You can communicate in Tibetan. Your marketable skills in the global economy are improved when you master Tibetan. Analytical skills improve when you study Tibetan. Learning about another culture enables you to gain a more profound understanding of your own culture.
How Long Does it Take to Learn Tibetan?
Tibetan is rated as a category 3 language by the Foreign Service Institute. It is considered moderately difficult for English speakers to learn and takes an average of 44 weeks (or 1100 class hours) to gain professional working proficiency.
Tibetan Alphabet & Pronunciation
ཀ
[ka]
[ka]
ཅ
[tʃa]
[tʃa]
ཏ
[ta]
[ta]
པ
[pa]
[pa]
ཙ
[tsa]
[tsa]
ཞ
[ʒa*]
[ʒa*]
ར
[ra]
[ra]
ཧ
[ha]
[ha]
ཁ
[kʰa]
[kʰa]
ཆ
[tʃʰa]
[tʃʰa]
ཐ
[tʰa]
[tʰa]
ཕ
[pʰa]
[pʰa]
ཚ
[tsʰa]
[tsʰa]
ཟ
[za*]
[za*]
ལ
[la]
[la]
ཨ
[a]
[a]
ག
[ɡa*]
[ɡa*]
ཇ
[dʒa*]
[dʒa*]
ད
[da*]
[da*]
བ
[ba*]
[ba*]
ཛ
[dza*]
[dza*]
འ
[a]
[a]
ཤ
[ʃa]
[ʃa]
ང
[ŋa]
[ŋa]
ཉ
[ɲa]
[ɲa]
ན
[na]
[na]
མ
[ma]
[ma]
ཝ
[wa]
[wa]
ཡ
[ja]
[ja]
ས
[sa]
[sa]
Basic Phrases in Tibetan
| Hello | བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལགས།། (Tashi Delek) |
|---|---|
| Goodbye | (Shug Dan ja) |
| Yes | |
| No | |
| Excuse me | (Gong-pa Ma-sum) |
| Please | |
| Thank you | ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (thuk-je-che) |
| You are welcome | |
| Do you speak english | (khye-rang yin-ji-kay gyab thub gi yo pe?) |
| Do you understand | |
| I understand | |
| I do not understand | |
| How are you | ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo-yimbay?) |
| Fine thanks | |
| What is your name | (Khedrand ming Gangyin?) |
| My name is | (Ngai ming ___ yin) |
| Pleased to meet you |
Tibetan Grammar
Tibetan Nouns
| Man | |
|---|---|
| Woman | |
| Boy | |
| Girl | |
| Cat | |
| Dog | |
| Fish | |
| Water | (Cu) |
| Milk | |
| Egg | |
| House | |
| Flower | |
| Tree | |
| Shirt | |
| Pants |
Tibetan Adjectives
Colors in Tibetan
| Black | |
|---|---|
| White | |
| Red | |
| Orange | |
| Yellow | |
| Green | |
| Blue | |
| Purple | |
| Pink | |
| Gray | |
| Brown |
Numbers in Tibetan
| Zero | |
|---|---|
| One | (Cheek) |
| Two | (Nyee) |
| Three | (Soom) |
| Four | (Zhee) |
| Five | (Nga) |
| Six | (Drook) |
| Seven | (Dün) |
| Eight | (Gyay) |
| Nine | (G00) |
| Ten | (Choo) |
| Eleven | (Choo Cheek) |
| Twelve | (Choo Nyee) |
| Twenty | (Nyee-Choo) |
| Thirty | (Soom Choo) |
| Forty | (Shi Choo) |
| Fifty | (Nga Choo) |
| Sixty | (Drook Choo) |
| Seventy | (Dün Choo) |
| Eighty | (Gyay Choo) |
| Ninety | (Goo Choo) |
| Hundred | (Gya) |
| Thousand | (Chik Thong) |
Tibetan Verbs
| To be | |
|---|---|
| To have | |
| To want | |
| To need | |
| To help | |
| To go | |
| To come | |
| To eat | |
| To drink | |
| To speak |
Building Simple Sentences
More Complex Tibetan Sentences
| And | |
|---|---|
| Or | |
| But | |
| Because | |
| With | |
| Also | |
| However | |
| Neither | |
| Nor | |
| If | |
| Then |
Useful Tibetan Vocabulary
Tibetan Questions
| Who | |
|---|---|
| What | |
| When | |
| Where | |
| Why | |
| How | |
| How many | |
| How much |
Days of the Week in Tibetan
| Monday | གཟའ་ཟླ་བ་ (dawa) |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | གཟའ་མིག་དམར་ (Mikmar) |
| Wednesday | |
| Thursday | གཟའ་ཕུར་བུ། (Purbu) |
| Friday | Lhakpa (Pasang) |
| Saturday | གཟའ་སྤེན་པ་ (Penba) |
| Sunday | གཟའ་ཉི་མ་ (nyima) |
| Yesterday | |
| Today | |
| Tomorrow |
Months in Tibetan
| January | (ཟླ་དང་པོ) |
|---|---|
| February | (ཟླ་གཉིས་པ།) |
| March | |
| April | |
| May | |
| June | |
| July | |
| August | |
| September | |
| October | |
| November | |
| December |
Seasons in Tibetan
| Winter | |
|---|---|
| Spring | |
| Summer | |
| Autumn |
Telling Time in Tibetan
| What time is it | |
|---|---|
| Hours | |
| Minutes | |
| Seconds | |
| O clock | |
| Half | |
| Quarter past | |
| Before | |
| After |
