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A (Mongolic)

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A is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages.[1]: 549–551 

A
The Mongolian script
Mongolian vowels
ᠠ
a
ᠡ
e
ᠢ
i
ᠣ
o
ᠤ
u
ᠥ
ö
ᠦ
ü
ᠧ
(ē)
Mongolian consonants
ᠨ
n
ᠩ
ng
ᠪ
b
ᠫ
(p)
ᠬ
q/k
ᠭ
ɣ/g
ᠮ
m
ᠯ
l
ᠰ
s
ᠱ
š
ᠲ
t
ᠳ
d
ᠴ
č
ᠵ
ǰ
ᠶ
y
ᠷ
r
ᠸ
(w)
Mongolian script multigraphs
Letter[2]: 17, 18 [3]: 546 
‑a a Transliteration[note 1]
— ᠠ
[note 2]
Alone
ᠠ᠋
[note 3]

[note 4]
ᠠ‍
[note 5]
Initial
‍ᠠ‍ Medial
‍ᠠ Connected final
᠎ᠠ⟨?⟩ ⟨⟩ — Separated final
Ligatures[2]: 22–23 [3]: 546 
ba pa Transliteration
ᠪᠠ
[note 6]
ᠫᠠ Alone
ᠪᠠ‍ ᠫᠠ‍ Initial
‍ᠪᠠ‍ ‍ᠫᠠ‍ Medial
‍ᠪᠠ ‍ᠫᠠ Final
Separated suffixes[note 7]
‑a Transliteration
 ᠠ‍⟨?⟩ ⟨⟩ Initial
 ᠠ⟨?⟩ ⟨⟩ Whole
  • Transcribes Chakhar /ɑ/;[8][9] Khalkha /a/, /ə/, and /∅/.[10]: 40–42  Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter а.[11][4]
  • Medial and final forms may be distinguished from those of other tooth-shaped letters through: vowel harmony (e), the shape of adjacent consonants (q/k and ɣ/g), and position in syllable sequence (n, ng, q, ɣ, d).[12]
  • The final tail extends to the left after bow-shaped consonants (such as b, and p), and to the right in all other cases.
  • ‍ᠠ᠋‍ = medial form used after the junction in a proper name compound.[13]: 44 
  • ‍ᠠ᠋⟨?⟩ ⟨⟩ = connected galik final.[2]: 26–28 [13]: 38–39 
  • Derived from Old Uyghur aleph (𐽰), written twice for isolate and initial forms.[3]: 539–540, 545–546 [14]: 111, 113 [13]: 35 
  • Produced with A using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[15]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, a comes before e.

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