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
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]:17,19–20[3]:546
o Transliteration[note 1]

[note 2]
Alone
Initial
Medial
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
  • = the final form used in loanwords, as in ᠷᠠᠳᠢᠣ radio (радио radio).[10]:48[12]:36[13]
  • = 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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Notes

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