TheSASM/GNC/SRC romanization ofStandard Tibetan, commonly known asTibetan pinyin orZWPY (Chinese:藏文拼音;pinyin:Zàngwén Pīnyīn), is the officialtranscription system for the Tibetan language in China.^[1] It is based on the pronunciation used byChina National Radio's Tibetan Radio,^[1] which is based on theLhasa dialect. It has been used within China as an alternative to theWylie transliteration for writing Tibetan in theLatin script since 1982.^[2][3]

Tibetan pinyin is a phonetic transcription, and as such its spelling is tied to actual pronunciation (although tone is not marked).^[4] Wylie on the other hand is atransliteration system, where mechanical conversion to and from Tibetan and Latin script is possible. Within academic circles, Wylie transliteration (with av replacing theapostrophe) is more commonly used.

Independent onsets in the initial syllable of a word are transcribed as follows:

For more general case, see#Onsets.

The 17vowels of the Lhasa dialect are represented in as follows:

Ending a syllable,-r is usually not pronounced, but it lengthens the preceding vowel. In the same place,-n usually nasalises the preceding vowel. Consonants at the end of a syllable are transcribed as follows:

The tone of asyllable depends mostly on its initialconsonant. In this table, each initial is given in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) with the vowela and a tone mark to present tone register (high/low).

Below is a comprehensive transcription table of onsets of an initial syllable of a word. If the syllable to transcribe is not the first syllable of a word, see#Onset variation.

Below is a comprehensive transcription table of rimes of a final syllable of a word, with IPA transcription for the Lhasa dialect.^[5] If the syllable to transcribe is not the final syllable of a word, seeCoda variation.

Take "ཨ" to be the consonant (not "◌").

Bare low aspirated variation

• k*,q*,t*,p*,x*,s*,ky*,ch* becomeg*,j*,d*,b*,?*,?*,gy*,zh* respectively
• pa* (་བ) andpo* (་བོ) becomewa andwo respectively

Sometimes there is intersyllabic influence:

TheIETFlanguage tag for Tibetan pinyin isbo-Latn-pinyin.^[6]

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