The Tibetan alphabet was created in the 7th century A.D. and is based on Indian alphabets of the time.The emperor of Tibet sent a minister, Thonmi Sambhota, to India to gather information about Buddhism.
On his arrival in India,he did not confine himself to simply gathering information but using the region's model alphabets,such as the devanagari,he created the first script for Tibetan,which he brought home with him.
The script has two forms, one used in the press, books, newspapers etc and a handwritten one which is the daily script of the Tibetans.
Today the writing does not reflect the spoken language because the pronunciation of the Tibetan language has changed.
The official Tibetan language is based on the dialect of Lhasa ,the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Chinese Province and is called Utsang.
Utsang together with the dialects Amdo and Ham form the Tibetan language family.
| ཀ | ཁ | ག | ང |
| ka | kha | ja | ngha |
| ཅ | ཆ | ཇ | ཉ |
| ca | cha | ya | ña |
| ཏ | ཐ | ད | ན |
| ta | tha | da | na |
| པ | ཕ | བ | མ |
| pa | pha | ba | ma |
| ཙ | ཚ | ཛ | ཝ |
| tsa | tsha | ya | va |
| ཞ | ཟ | འ | ཡ |
| zha | za | 'a | ya |
| ར | ལ | ཤ | ས |
| ra | la | sha | sa |
| ཧ | ཨ | ||
| ha | a | ||
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