Ta (Mongolic)
Letter used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages
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Mongolian language
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| Letter[2]: 13, 17, 23 [3]: 546 [4]: 212, 214 | |
|---|---|
| t | Transliteration[note 1] |
| ᠲ | Initial |
| ᠲ | Medial (syllable-initial) |
| — | Medial (syllable-final) |
| — | Final |
| Separated suffixes[note 3] | ||
|---|---|---|
| ‑ta, ‑te | ‑tu, ‑tü | Transliteration |
| — | ᠲᠤ | Whole |
| ᠲᠠ | ᠲᠤ | Initial |
- Transcribes Chakhar /t/;[10][11] Khalkha /t/.[12]: 40–42 Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter т.[6][5]
- Syllable-initially indistinguishable from d.[2]: 23 [13]: 9 [10]
- Derived from Old Uyghur taw (𐾀; initial) and lamedh (𐽸; medial).[3]: 539–540, 545–546 [14]: 111, 113 [15]: 35
- Positional variants of initial taw ⟨ᠲ/ᠲ᠋/ᠲ⟩ can be used to clarify the spelling of t in words of foreign origin, as in ᠹᠣᠲ᠋ᠣ᠋ foto 'photograph' (фото foto), ᠲᠢᠶᠠᠲ᠋ᠷ tiyatr 'theatre' (театр teatr), and ᠻᠠᠷᠲ khart 'card' (карт kart).[2]: 23 [6]: 48–49 [15]: 37 [16]
- Produced with T using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[17]
- In the Mongolian Unicode block, t comes after š and before d.
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