Ra (Mongolic)

Letter used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ra 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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Ra
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)
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Letter[2]: 13–14, 17 [3]: 546 [4]: 212, 214 
r Transliteration[note 1]
(ᠷ‍) Initial[note 2]
‍ᠷ‍ Medial (syllable-initial)
Medial (syllable-final)
‍ᠷ Final
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More information C-V syllables: 14, r‑a, r‑e ...
C-V syllables[6]: 14 
r‑a, r‑e ra, re ri ro, ru rö, rü Transliteration
— ᠷᠠ ᠷᠢ ᠷᠣ᠋ ᠷᠥ᠋ Alone
ᠷᠠ‍ ᠷᠢ‍ ᠷᠣ‍ ᠷᠥ‍ Initial
‍ᠷᠠ‍ ‍ᠷᠢ‍ ‍ᠷᠣ‍ Medial
‍ᠷ᠎ᠠ⟨?⟩ ⟨⟩ ‍ᠷᠠ ‍ᠷᠢ ‍ᠷᠣ Final
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  • Transcribes Chakhar /r/;[7][8] Khalkha /r/.[9]: 40–42  Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter р.[6][5]
  • Not occurring word-initially except in loanwords.[2]: 14 
  • Derived from Old Uyghur resh (𐽾).[3]: 539–540, 545–546 [10]: 111, 113 [11]: 35 
  • Produced with R using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[12]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, r comes after y and before w.

Clear Script

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Xibe language

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Manchu language

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Notes

  1. [1]
    Scholarly transliteration.[5]
  2. [2]
    Not found in native Mongolian words.

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