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Ma (Mongolic)

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

Mongolian language

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Ma
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
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More information m, Transliteration ...
Letter[2]: 13, 17, 24 [3]: 546 [4]: 212, 214 
m Transliteration[note 1]
ᠮ‍ Initial
‍ᠮ‍ Medial (syllable-initial)
Medial (syllable-final)
‍ᠮ Final
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More information C-V syllables: 8, m‑a, m‑e ...
C-V syllables[6]: 8 
m‑a, m‑e ma, me mi mo, mu mö, mü Transliteration
— ᠮᠠ
[note 2]
ᠮᠢ ᠮᠣ᠋ ᠮᠥ᠋ Alone
ᠮᠠ‍ ᠮᠢ‍ ᠮᠣ‍ ᠮᠥ‍ Initial
‍ᠮᠠ‍ ‍ᠮᠢ‍ ‍ᠮᠣ‍ Medial
‍ᠮ᠎ᠠ⟨?⟩ ⟨⟩ ‍ᠮᠠ ‍ᠮᠢ ‍ᠮᠣ Final
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  • Transcribes Chakhar /m/;[9][10] Khalkha /m/.[11]: 40–42  Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter м.[6][5]
  • Derived from Old Uyghur mem (𐽹).[3]: 539–540, 545–546 [12]: 111, 113 [13]: 35 
  • Produced with M using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[14]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, m comes after ɣ/g and before l.

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Xibe language

Manchu language

Notes

  1. Scholarly transliteration.[5]
  2. As in the exclamation ᠮᠠ/ᠮᠠᠢ ma/mai (Khalkha: ма(й) ma(i)) 'here, take it'.[8]: 519, 522 

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