🔠Alphabet (syllabary)
Sounds
To learn the sounds of the alphabet or syllabary and how to combine them into syllable clusters, visit the Video Lessons page.
Worksheets
Root letters
✍️Learn the stroke order for the 30 root letters here: 30 syllable markers "alphabet"
✍️Blank handwriting practice sheet for practicing writing out the root letters by hand
Combined letters
✍️Handwriting practice sheet for conjunct consonants
📃🎧Review sheet for roots and combinations: 30 root letters and conjunct consonants and listening practice at the Audio file
Pronunciation
Listen to a native speaker pronouncing the thirty root consonants here: https://uma-tibet.org/the-tibetan-consonants-and-their-sounds/
Practice Game
Thanks to my student, Anaïs, for finding this one. It's a test-yourself alphabet game for the thirty root letters. GaKha (bum-pa-mi-rtag-pa.site.
Esukhia has also produced an excellent interactive beginning reader that is a bit like a game. You listen, speak, read, and write your way through the alphabet and progress quickly to simple words and fairly clear visual cues about vocabulary, even if you aren't working with a teacher online or in person yet. https://esukhia.online/textbooks/ (Start with the How to Use this Book page for the Beginning Reader). See the Course Websites page for more ideas on how to use the immersion-style Tibetan materials from Esukhia for further learning.
Reading Practice Channel
Do a search in the "video" tab using "oldest" sorting for comprehensive alphabet and spelling practice videos: LEARNING: Basic Reading Tibetan Language - YouTube
How to read cursive
Reading gyuk yik cursive script https://www.omniglot.com/writing/tibetan.htm and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLJpOCOnsvI v
Root Letters
The images below show the thirty root letters in four different styles:
u-chan, the most common version for printing,
u-med, taught to young children in central Tibet, but not so popular everywhere else,
u-med short forms and gyuk-yik are more typical styles for quick, cursive-style writing.
I find it less visually distracting, when learning, to see the individual characters without the ཚེག་ or "dot"-like syllable-end marker:
