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Pa (Mongolic)

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

Pa
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]: 12, 15, 17, 23 [3]: 546 [4]: 212–213 
p Transliteration[note 1]
ᠫ‍ Initial
‍ᠫ‍ Medial (syllable-initial)
— Medial (syllable-final)
(‍ᠫ) Final[note 2]
C-V syllables[6]: 46 
pa, pe pi po, pu pö, pü Transliteration
ᠫᠠ ᠫᠢ ᠫᠣ ᠫᠥ᠋ Alone
ᠫᠠ‍ ᠫᠢ‍ ᠫᠣ‍ ᠫᠥ‍ Initial
‍ᠫᠠ‍ ‍ᠫᠢ‍ ‍ᠫᠣ‍ Medial
‍ᠫᠠ ‍ᠫᠢ ‍ᠫᠣ Final
  • Transcribes Chakhar /p/;[7][8] Khalkha /pʰ/.[9]: 40–42  Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter п.[6][5]
  • Only at the beginning of Mongolian words (although words with an initial p tend to be foreign).[10]: 5 [11]: 27 [7]
  • Galik letter, derived from Mongolian b.[12]: 35 
  • Produced with P using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[13]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, p comes after b and before q/k.

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