Ue (Mongolic)

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

Ue
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]:17,20[3]:546
ü Transliteration[note 1]

[note 2]
Alone
Initial
Medial (word-initial syllable)
Medial (subsequent syllables)
Final
Ligatures[2]:22–23,24–25[3]:546
, Transliteration
ᠪᠦ ᠫᠦ ᠭᠦ? w/o tail
[note 3]
Alone
ᠭᠦ? w/ tail
ᠪᠦ ᠫᠦ ᠭᠦ Initial
ᠪᠦ ᠫᠦ ᠭᠦ Medial
ᠪᠦ ᠫᠦ ᠭᠦ Final
Separated suffixes[note 4]
ü(...) ü ün ügei üd Transliteration
? Whole
ᠦᠨ? ᠦᠳ?
ᠦᠭᠡᠢ?
  • Transcribes Chakhar /u/;[9][10] Khalkha /u/, /ə/, and //.[11]:40–42 Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter ү.[12][4]
  • Indistinguishable from ö, except where ü can be inferred from its context:
    • ü is found in medial or final syllables if e/i/ü are found syllable-initially.[2]:20[7]:9–10
  • = an alternative final form; also used in loanwords.[13]:39 Additionally used in native and modern Mongolian ᠰᠦ? 'milk' (Classical Mongolian ᠰᠦ? or ᠰᠦᠨ sün).[6]:741,744[13]:39
  • The syllable-initial medial form is also used in non-initial syllables in proper name compounds,[13]:44 as well as in loanwords.[citation needed]
  • = medial form used after the junction in a proper name compound.[13]:44
  • Derived from Old Uyghur waw (𐽳), followed by a yodh (𐽶) in word-initial syllables, and preceded by an aleph (𐽰) for isolate and initial forms.[3]:539–540,545–546[14]:111,113[13]:35
  • Produced with U using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[15]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, ü comes after ö and before ē.

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Notes

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