Wa (Mongolic)
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| Letter[2]: 38 [3]: 44–45 | |
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| w (v) | Transliteration[note 1] |
| ᠸ [note 2] |
Initial |
| ᠸ [note 3] |
Medial (syllable-initial) |
| Medial (syllable-final) | |
| ᠸ⟨?⟩ ⟨ᠧ⟩ [note 4] |
Final |
| C-V syllables[3]: 44–45 | |||||
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| w‑a, w‑e[a] | wa, we | wi | wo, wu | wö, wü | Transliteration |
| — | ᠸᠠ [note 5] |
ᠸᠢ | ᠸᠣ᠋ | ᠸᠥ᠋ | Alone |
| ᠸᠠ | ᠸᠢ | ᠸᠣ | ᠸᠥ | Initial | |
| ᠸᠠ | ᠸᠢ | ᠸᠣ | Medial | ||
ᠸᠠ⟨?⟩ ⟨  ⟩[note 6] |
ᠸᠠ | ᠸᠢ | ᠸᠣ | Final | |
- Transcribes Chakhar /w/;[9][12] Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter в.[3][4]
- Used to transcribe foreign words (originally for v in Sanskrit व /va/). Transcribes /w/ in Tibetan ཝ /wa/;[13]: 254 [5]: 28 [14]: 113 Old Uyghur and Chinese loanwords.[2]: 34–35
- Indistinguishable from ē, except when inferred by its placement: typically between vowels, but also when it follows a consonant and precedes a vowel.[2]: 38 In many xylographs also indistinguishable from the straight form of y ⟨
⟩.[15]: 59
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- Derived from Old Uyghur bet (𐽱),[16]: 539–540, 545–546 [14]: 111, 113 and waw (𐽳, before a separated vowel).[citation needed]
- Produced with ⇧ Shift+W using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[17]
- In the Mongolian Unicode block, w comes after r.
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Xibe language
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