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3. Consonants. The following are the Nāgari characters with which they are connected:
ཀ
ཁ
kh
ག
19
3
5
པ
70
ส
ལྤ
ཡ
क k
च
त t
प
ts
व
य
C
श
p
V
y
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ś
HR
க
ཐ
A
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G
ར
ས
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छ
थ th
फph
tsh
ž
ch
र
स
r
E
S
ད
17
བ
416
Π
21
ส
15
ཧ
म
15
ज
द
dz
Z
ल
consonants with the
व b
ho
مه
ह
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Wy andr following a consonant have the signs
tively; e. g. ky,
kr.
d
h
ப
ཉ
ན
ہو۔
མ
འ.
ཨ
♡
ho
ङ
외
.d
n
and
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न n
ñ
म m
T
ḥ (or ')
अ a
respec
PRONUNCIATION
4. As regards pronunciation only a short note may be given. While 3c, ch, and Ej are pure palatals, as in Sanskrit,ts, I tsh, anddz are palato-alveolar.is like j in jadis (=zādi, zhadi) 'formerly in French, but with a tendency towards the sound of sh as in shy. (or') is now silent in Modern Tibetan, but in Classical Tibetan it had the sound of the glottal stop, like that heard in German when words begin with a vowel (in writing). It is the substitute
