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
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]:13,17,23[3]:546[4]:212,214
s Transliteration[note 1]
Initial
Medial (syllable-initial)
Medial (syllable-final)
Final
C-V syllables[6]:41
sa, se[7] sa, se si so, su , Transliteration
ᠰᠠ
[note 2]
ᠰᠢ ᠰᠣ ᠰᠥ Alone
ᠰᠠ ᠰᠢ ᠰᠣ ᠰᠥ Initial
ᠰᠠ ᠰᠢ ᠰᠣ Medial
? 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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Notes

References

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