The Subscribed Letters
Four consonants can be written below or subscribed to other consonants. Most of the subscribed letters change the
pronunciation of the consonant they are attached to. All of the subscribed letters, except one, are written in a different way
than when they are written as base letters. In the following tables you can see how to draw those letters as well as how to
pronounce them.
| The Four Subscribed Letters |
| Letter |
Name |
English Phonetic (Name) |
| ཡ |
ཡ་བཏགས་ |
Ya-ta (Ya-bound) |
| ར |
ར་བཏགས་ |
Ra-ta (Ra-bound) |
| ལ |
ལ་བཏགས་ |
La-ta (La-bound) |
| ཝ |
ཝ་ཟུར་ |
Wa-sur (Wa-corner) |
| The Six La-ta Letters and Their Pronunciation |
| ཀླ |
la |
གླ |
la* |
བླ |
la* |
རླ |
la* |
སླ |
la* |
ཟླ |
da |
| *Pronounced the same as the first la-ta |
| The Thirteen Wa-zur Letters |
| ཀྭ |
ka |
ཁྭ |
kha |
གྭ |
ga |
ཉྭ |
nya |
དྭ |
da |
ཙྭ |
tsa |
ཚྭ |
tsha |
| ཞྭ |
zha |
ཟྭ |
za |
རྭ |
ra |
ལྭ |
la |
ཤྭ |
sha |
ཧྭ |
ha |
|
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Wa-zur does not affect the pronunciation of the base letter and therefore we have omitted recording these letters.
You can hear how they are pronounced on the Alphabet page.