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

Mongolian language

A
The Mongolian script
Mongolian vowels
a
e
i
o
u
ö
ü
(ē)
Mongolian consonants
n
ng
b
(p)
q/k
γ/g
m
l
s
š
t
d
č
ǰ
y
r
(w)
Foreign consonants
Letter[2]:17,18[3]:546
a a Transliteration[note 1]
[lower-alpha 1] Alone
[lower-alpha 2]
[lower-alpha 3]
[lower-alpha 4] Initial
Medial
Connected final
? Separated final
Ligatures[2]:22–23[3]:546
ba pa Transliteration
ᠪᠠ[lower-alpha 5] ᠫᠠ Alone
ᠪᠠ ᠫᠠ Initial
ᠪᠠ ᠫᠠ Medial
ᠪᠠ ᠫᠠ Final
Separated suffixes[note 2]
a Transliteration
? Initial
? Whole
  • Transcribes Chakhar /ɑ/;[8][9] Khalkha /a/, /ə/, and //.[10]:40–42 Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter а.[11][4]
  • Medial and final forms may be distinguished from those of other tooth-shaped letters through: vowel harmony (e), the shape of adjacent consonants (q/k and γ/g), and position in syllable sequence (n, ng, q, γ, d).[12]
  • The final tail extends to the left after bow-shaped consonants (such as b, and p), and to the right in all other cases.
  • = medial form used after the junction in a proper name compound.[13]:44
  • ? = connected galik final.[2]:26–28[13]:38–39
  • Derived from Old Uyghur aleph (𐽰), written twice for isolate and initial forms.[3]:539–540,545–546[14]:111,113[13]:35
  • Produced with A using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[15]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, a comes before e.

Clear Script

Xibe language

Manchu language

Notes

  1. As in the interjection a (аа aa) 'a!, oh!, well!'.[6]:1
  2. As in the exclamation ; a/e (аа/ээ/оо/өө aa/ee/oo/öö), or interjection e (ээ ee) 'oh!'.[6]:1,284
  3. As in the exclamation ; a/e (аа/ээ/оо/өө aa/ee/oo/öö).[6]:1
  4. Also used in enumerations, akin to a) or b).[2]:18
  5. As in ᠪᠠ ba (ба ba) 'and'.[6]:64[2]:22
  1. Scholarly transliteration.[4]
  2. Separated suffixes starting with, or made up by the letter a include: ? a (vocative or dative-locative), ᠠᠴᠠ? ača (ablative), and ᠠᠴᠠᠭᠠᠨ? ačaγan (reflexive+ablative).[7]

References

  1. "The Unicode Standard, Version 14.0 – Core Specification Chapter 13: South and Central Asia-II, Other Modern Scripts" (PDF). www.unicode.org. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Poppe, Nicholas (1974). Grammar of Written Mongolian. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-00684-2.
  3. 1 2 3 Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William (1996). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507993-7.
  4. 1 2 "Mongolian transliterations" (PDF). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2006-05-06.
  5. "Mongolian Transliteration & Transcription". collab.its.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Lessing, Ferdinand (1960). Mongolian-English Dictionary (PDF). University of California Press. Note that this dictionary uses the transliterations c, ø, x, y, z, ai, and ei; instead of č, ö, q, ü, ǰ, ayi, and eyi;:xii as well as problematically and incorrectly treats all rounded vowels (o/u/ö/ü) after the initial syllable as u or ü.[5]
  7. "PROPOSAL Encode Mongolian Suffix Connector (U+180F) To Replace Narrow Non-Breaking Space (U+202F)" (PDF). UTC Document Register for 2017. 2017-01-15.
  8. "Mongolian Traditional Script". Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Mongolian Language Site. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  9. "Writing – Study Mongolian". Study Mongolian. August 2013. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  10. Svantesson, Jan-Olof; Tsendina, Anna; Karlsson, Anastasia; Franzen, Vivan (2005-02-10). The Phonology of Mongolian. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-151461-6.
  11. Skorodumova, L. G. (2000). Vvedenie v staropismenny mongolskiy yazyk Введение в старописьменный монгольский язык (PDF) (in Russian). Muravey-Gayd. ISBN 5-8463-0015-4.
  12. Viklund, Andreas. "Lingua Mongolia - Mongolian Grammar Reference". Lingua Mongolia. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  13. 1 2 3 Janhunen, Juha (2006-01-27). The Mongolic Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-79690-7.
  14. Clauson, Gerard (2005-11-04). Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-43012-3.
  15. jowilco. "Windows keyboard layouts - Globalization". Microsoft Docs. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
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