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O (Mongolic)

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

O
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]: 17, 19–20 [3]: 546 
o Transliteration[note 1]
ᠣ
[note 2]
Alone
ᠣ‍ Initial
‍ᠣ‍ Medial
‍ᠣ Final
Ligatures[2]: 22–23 [3]: 546 
bo po Transliteration
ᠪᠣ ᠫᠣ Alone
ᠪᠣ‍ ᠫᠣ‍ Initial
‍ᠪᠣ‍ ‍ᠫᠣ‍ Medial
‍ᠪᠣ ‍ᠫᠣ Final
  • Transcribes Chakhar /ɔ/;[7][8] Khalkha /ɔ/, /ə/, and /∅/.[9]: 40–42  Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter о.[10][4]
  • Indistinguishable from u, except where o can be inferred from its context:
    • o is found in medial or final syllables if it's also found syllable-initially (and occasionally after a syllable-initial i).[2]: 11, 19 [11]: 9–10 
  • ‍ᠣ᠋ = the final form used in loanwords, as in ᠷᠠᠳᠢᠣ᠋ radio (радио radio).[10]: 48 [12]: 36 [13]
  • ‍ᠣ᠋‍ = medial form used after the junction in a proper name compound.[12]: 44 
  • Derived from Old Uyghur waw (𐽳), preceded by an aleph (𐽰) for isolate and initial forms.[3]: 539–540, 545–546 [14]: 111, 113 [12]: 35 
  • Produced with W using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[15]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, o comes after i and before u.

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