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
a
e
i
o
u
ö
ü
(ē)
Mongolian consonants
n
ng
b
(p)
q/k
ɣ/g
m
l
s
š
t
d
č
ǰ
y
r
(w)
Mongolian script multigraphs
Letter[2]:17,18[3]:546
a a Transliteration[note 1]

[note 2]
Alone

[note 3]

[note 4]

[note 5]
Initial
Medial
Connected final
? 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
? Initial
? 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.
  • = medial form used after the junction in a proper name compound.[13]:44
  • ? = 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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Notes

References

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