Da (Mongolic)

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

Da
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]:13,17,23[3]:546[4]:212,214
d Transliteration[note 1]
Initial
? Medial (syllable-initial)
? Medial (syllable-final)
Final
C-V syllables[6]:31
da, de di do, du , Transliteration
ᠳᠠ
[note 2]
ᠳᠢ ᠳᠣ ᠳᠥ Alone
ᠳᠠ ᠳᠢ ᠳᠣ ᠳᠥ Initial
ᠳᠠ ᠳᠢ ᠳᠣ Medial
ᠳᠠ ᠳᠢ ᠳᠣ Final
Separated suffixes[note 3]
d(...) da, de du, Transliteration
ᠳᠤ? Whole
ᠳᠠ? ᠳᠤ? Initial
  • Transcribes Chakhar /d/;[10][11] Khalkha /t/, and //.[12]:40–42 Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter д.[6][5]
  • Syllable-initially indistinguishable from t.[2]:23[13]:9[10] When it must be distinguished from t medially, it can be written twice, and with both medial forms (as in ᠬᠤᠳᠳᠤᠭ qudduɣ 'well', compared with ᠬᠤᠲᠤᠭ qutuɣ 'holy').[13]:59[14] Alternatively, a dot is sometimes used to the right of the letter in 19th and 20th century manuscripts.[2]:26
  • The belly-tooth-shaped form is used before consonants (syllable-final), the other before vowels.[13]:58[15]:5
  • Derived from Old Uyghur taw (𐾀; initial, belly-tooth-shaped medial, and final) and lamedh (𐽸; other medial form).[3]:539–540,545–546[16]:111,113[17]:35
  • Positional variants of lamedh // can be used to clarify the spelling of d in words of foreign origin, as in ᠣᠻᠲᠣᠷ dokhtor 'doctor' (доктор doktor), ᠳᠡᠳ ded 'the following, the succeeding' (дэд ded), and ᠡᠳ ed 'goods, property' (distinguishing it from ᠣᠨ on 'year', and retained in derivatives such as ᠡᠳᠯᠡᠯ? edlel 'possession' (эдлэл edlel); эд ed).[2]:23,32,55[6]:31[17]:39,41[18]
  • Produced with D using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[19]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, d comes after t and before č.

Clear Script

Xibe language

Manchu language

Notes

References

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