I (Mongolic)

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

I
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]:17,19[3]:546
i Transliteration[note 1]

[note 2]
Alone
Initial
Medial (syllable-initial)

[note 3]
Medial (syllable-final)
Final
Ligatures[2]:22–23,24–25[3]:546
bi pi ki, gi Transliteration
ᠪᠢ
[note 4]
ᠫᠢ ᠬᠢ
[note 5]
Alone
ᠪᠢ ᠫᠢ ᠬᠢ Initial
ᠪᠢ ᠫᠢ ᠬᠢ Medial
ᠪᠢ ᠫᠢ ᠬᠢ Final
Separated suffixes[note 6]
i Transliteration
? Initial
? Whole
  • Transcribes Chakhar /i/ or /ɪ/;[8][9] Khalkha /i/, /ə/, and //.[10]:40–42 Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter и.[11][4]
  • Today, often absorbed into a preceding syllable when at the end of a word.[citation needed]
  • Written medially with the single long tooth after a consonant, and with two after a vowel (with rare exceptions like ᠨᠠᠮᠠ naima 'eight' or ᠨᠠᠮᠠᠨ naiman 'eight'/tribal name).[2]:31[12]:9,39[13]:38
  • = a handwritten Inner Mongolian variant on the sequence yi (as in ᠰᠠᠶᠢᠨ / ᠰᠠᠶᠢᠨ sayin 'good' being written ᠰᠠᠢ sain).[12]:58[13]:38
    • Also the medial form used after the junction in a proper name compound.[13]:44
  • Derived from Old Uyghur yodh (𐽶), preceded by an aleph (𐽰) for isolate and initial forms.[3]:539–540,545–546[14]:111,113[13]:35
  • Produced with I using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[15]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, i comes after e and before o.

Clear Script

Xibe language

Manchu language

Notes

References

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