![]() The rhotic /r/ is usually a trill or a fricative trill, and is voiceless in the onsets of high-tone syllables. Aspirated consonants (indicated by the superscript h), /ɬ/, and /h/ are not found in low-tone syllables. In the onsets of low-tone syllables, consonants are voiced. ![]() Consonants Consonant phonemesĪll consonants may begin a syllable. The tone of a syllable determines the allophone of the onset and the phonation type of the nuclear vowel. Phonology Tones ĭzongkha is a tonal language and has two level tones (high and low ), and two contour tone distinctions, totaling four tones. The Bhutanese government adopted a transcription system known as Roman Dzongkha, devised by the linguist George van Driem, as its standard in 1991. ![]() There are various systems of romanization and transliteration for Dzongkha, but none accurately represents its phonetic sound. Dzongkha is usually written in Bhutanese forms of the Uchen script, forms of the Tibetan script known as Jôyi "cursive longhand" and Jôtshum "formal longhand". The Tibetan script used to write Dzongkha has thirty basic letters, sometimes known as "radicals", for consonants. The word "Dzongkha" in Jôyi, a Bhutanese form of the Uchen script
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