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
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[3]:546[4]:212,214
l Transliteration[note 1]
() Initial[note 2]
Medial (syllable-initial)
Medial (syllable-final)
Final
C-V syllables[6]:8
la, le la, le li lo, lu , Transliteration
ᠯᠠ
[note 3]
ᠯᠢ ᠯᠣ ᠯᠥ Alone
ᠯᠠ ᠯᠢ ᠯᠣ ᠯᠥ Initial
ᠯᠠ ᠯᠢ ᠯᠣ Medial
? ᠯᠠ ᠯᠢ ᠯᠣ Final
Separated suffixes[note 4]
lu, 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? 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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Manchu language

Notes

References

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