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La (Mongolic)

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

La
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]: 13, 17 [3]: 546 [4]: 212, 214 
l Transliteration[note 1]
(ᠯ‍) Initial[note 2]
‍ᠯ‍ Medial (syllable-initial)
Medial (syllable-final)
‍ᠯ Final
C-V syllables[6]: 8 
l‑a, l‑e la, le li lo, lu lö, lü Transliteration
— ᠯᠠ
[note 3]
ᠯᠢ ᠯᠣ᠋ ᠯᠥ᠋ Alone
ᠯᠠ‍ ᠯᠢ‍ ᠯᠣ‍ ᠯᠥ‍ Initial
‍ᠯᠠ‍ ‍ᠯᠢ‍ ‍ᠯᠣ‍ Medial
‍ᠯ᠎ᠠ⟨?⟩ ⟨⟩ ‍ᠯᠠ ‍ᠯᠢ ‍ᠯᠣ Final
Separated suffixes[note 4]
‑lu, ‑lü Transliteration
 ᠯᠤ‍ Initial
  • Transcribes Chakhar /l/;[10][11] Khalkha /ɮ/.[12]: 40–42  Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter л.[6][5]
  • Not occurring word-initially in native words.[13]: 10 
  • Forms a ligature with a preceding bow-shaped consonant in loanwords such as ᠪᠯᠠᠮ᠎ᠠ⟨?⟩ blam-a 'lama' from Tibetan བླ་མ་ Wylie: bla-ma.[2]: 15, 32 [14]: 36 
  • Derived from Old Uyghur hooked resh (𐾁).[3]: 539–540, 545–546 [15]: 111, 113 [14]: 35 
  • Produced with L using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[16]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, l comes after m and before s.

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