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Sa (Mongolic)

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

Sa
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]: 13, 17, 23 [3]: 546 [4]: 212, 214 
s Transliteration[note 1]
ᠰ‍ Initial
‍ᠰ‍ Medial (syllable-initial)
Medial (syllable-final)
‍ᠰ Final
C-V syllables[6]: 41 
s‑a, s‑e[7] sa, se si so, su sö, sü Transliteration
— ᠰᠠ
[note 2]
ᠰᠢ ᠰᠣ᠋ ᠰᠥ᠋ Alone
ᠰᠠ‍ ᠰᠢ‍ ᠰᠣ‍ ᠰᠥ‍ Initial
‍ᠰᠠ‍ ‍ᠰᠢ‍ ‍ᠰᠣ‍ Medial
‍ᠰ᠎ᠠ⟨?⟩ ⟨⟩ ‍ᠰᠠ ‍ᠰᠢ ‍ᠰᠣ Final
  • Transcribes Chakhar /s/, or /ʃ/ before i;[10]: 58 [11] Khalkha /s/, or /ʃ/ before i. Before a morpheme boundary, however, there is no change of s to /ʃ/ before an i.[10]: 84  Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter с.[6][5]
  • Derived from Old Uyghur merged samekh and shin (𐽻 and 𐽿).[3]: 539–540, 545–546 [12]: 111, 113 [13]: 35 
  • Produced with S using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[14]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, s comes after l and before š.

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