Wa (Mongolic)

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

Wa
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]:38[3]:44–45
w (v) Transliteration[note 1]

[note 2]
Initial

[note 3]
Medial (syllable-initial)
Medial (syllable-final)
?
[note 4]
Final
C-V syllables[3]:44–45
wa, we[a] wa, we wi wo, wu , Transliteration
ᠸᠠ
[note 5]
ᠸᠢ ᠸᠣ ᠸᠥ Alone
ᠸᠠ ᠸᠢ ᠸᠣ ᠸᠥ Initial
ᠸᠠ ᠸᠢ ᠸᠣ Medial
?
[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 /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
  • 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.

Clear Script

Xibe language

Manchu language

Notes

References

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