Please note that this chart is meant to be a concise document to help users and ACIP input operators overseas quickly find corresponding roman and Tibetan letters with minimum effort. Reference is made only to those letters, letter-combinations, and special symbols which we have actually encountered during the input of tens of thousands of pages, and not any of the other, highly unusual character that do exist; these are added as they are encountered. We have not attempted to show every possible combination of letters, but rather have addressed virtually every possible case through the use of representative examples, which users can apply to other combinations of the same type. Please refer to the ACIP website for regular updates of these standards.
Tibetan and Tibetanized-Sanskrit Consonants
Tibetan and Tibetanized-Sanskrit Vowels
Search and Download Texts | Input Code & Transcription Standards
Download Tibetan Fonts | Standards for Tibetan and Sanskrit Pronunciation
File Nomenclature and Number | Conventions for the St. Petersburg Catalog
Structure of the ACIP Database | The ACIP Master Catalog
Text Verification Procedures | Download the ACIP Release IV User Manual
