Oe (Mongolic)

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

Oe
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]:17,20[3]:546
ö Transliteration[note 1]

[note 2]
Alone
Initial
Medial (word-initial syllable)
Medial (subsequent syllables)
Final
Ligatures[2]:22–23,24–25[3]:546
, Transliteration
ᠪᠥ ᠫᠥ ᠭᠥ? w/o tail
[note 3]
Alone
ᠭᠥ? w/ tail
ᠪᠥ ᠫᠥ ᠭᠥ Initial
ᠪᠥ ᠫᠥ ᠭᠥ Medial
ᠪᠥ ᠫᠥ ᠭᠥ Final
  • Transcribes Chakhar /o/;[8][9] Khalkha /o/[ɵ], /ə/, and //.[10]:40–42 Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter ө.[11][4]
  • Indistinguishable from ü, except where ö can be inferred from its context:
    • ö is found in medial or final syllables if it's also found syllable-initially.[2]:11,20[7]:9–10
  • = an alternative final form; also used in loanwords.[12]:39
  • The syllable-initial medial form is also used in non-initial syllables in proper name compounds,[12]:44 as well as in loanwords.[citation needed]
  • = medial form used after the junction in a proper name compound.[12]:44
  • Derived from Old Uyghur waw (𐽳), followed by a yodh (𐽶) in word-initial syllables, and preceded by an aleph (𐽰) for isolate and initial forms.[3]:539–540,545–546[13]:111,113[12]:35
  • Produced with O using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[14]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, ö comes after u and before ü.

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