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Ta 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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Ta
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
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More information t, Transliteration ...
Letter[2]: 13, 17, 23 [3]: 546 [4]: 212, 214 
t Transliteration[note 1]
ᠲ‍ Initial
‍ᠲ‍ Medial (syllable-initial)
— Medial (syllable-final)
— Final
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More information C-V syllables: 31, , te ...
C-V syllables[6]: 31 
ta, te ti to, tu tö, tü Transliteration
ᠲᠠ
[note 2]
ᠲᠢ ᠲᠣ᠋ ᠲᠥ᠋ Alone
ᠲᠠ‍ ᠲᠢ‍ ᠲᠣ‍ ᠲᠥ‍ Initial
‍ᠲᠠ‍ ‍ᠲᠢ‍ ‍ᠲᠣ‍ Medial
‍ᠲᠠ ‍ᠲᠢ ‍ᠲᠣ Final
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More information Separated suffixes, , ‑te ...
Separated suffixes[note 3]
‑ta, ‑te ‑tu, ‑tü Transliteration
—  ᠲᠤ Whole
 ᠲᠠ‍  ᠲᠤ‍ Initial
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  • 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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Manchu language

Notes

  1. Scholarly transliteration.[5]
  2. As in the second person singular/plural pronoun ᠲᠠ ta 'you',[8]: 760 [2]: 85–86  or the intensifying ⟨ᠳᠠ⟩ da/de (Khalkha: даа/дээ daa/dee) particle used after the predicate.[8]: 211 
  3. Separated suffixes starting with the letter t include:  ᠲᠠᠢ ‑tai/‑tei (comitative),  ᠲᠠᠭᠠᠨ/ ᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ‑taɣan/‑tegen (reflexive+dative-locative),  ᠲᠠᠶᠢᠭᠠᠨ⟨?⟩/ ᠲᠡᠶᠢᠭᠡᠨ⟨?⟩ ‑tayiɣan/‑teyigen (reflexive+comitative), and  ᠲᠤ ‑tu/‑tü or  ᠲᠤᠷ ‑tur/‑tür (dative-locative).[9]

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