Qa (Mongolic)

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

Mongolian language

Qa
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]:14,17,21,24–25[3]:546[4]:212–213
q k Transliteration[note 1]
Initial
Medial (syllable-initial)
Medial (syllable-final)
Final
C-V syllables[2]:15[6]:19
qa qa ke ki qo, qu , Transliteration
ᠬᠠ[lower-alpha 1] ᠬᠡ[lower-alpha 2] ᠬᠢ[lower-alpha 3] ᠬᠣ ᠬᠥ? (w/o tail)[lower-alpha 4] Alone
ᠬᠥ? (w/ tail)
ᠬᠠ ᠬᠡ ᠬᠢ ᠬᠣ ᠬᠥ Initial
ᠬᠠ ᠬᠡ ᠬᠢ ᠬᠣ ᠬᠥ Medial
? ᠬᠡ ᠬᠢ ᠬᠣ ᠬᠥ Final
Separated suffixes[note 2]
ki kin Transliteration
ᠬᠢ ᠬᠢᠨ Whole

q/k

  • Transcribes Chakhar /x/;[11][12] Khalkha /x/. Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter х.[6][5]
  • Produced with H using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[13]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, q/k comes after p and before γ/g.

q

  • Distinction from other tooth-shaped letters by position in syllable sequence.
  • A separated isolate-shaped q appears in the Uyghur loan title ayaγqa tegimlig 'worthy of respect; reverend'.[3]:546[14]:43
  • Derived from Old Uyghur merged gimel and heth (𐽲).[3]:539–540,545–546[15]:111,113–115[16]:35

k

  • Syllable-initially indistinguishable from g.[2]:15,24[9]:9
  • Derived from Old Uyghur kaph (𐽷).[3]:539–540,545–546[15]:111,113,115[16]:35

Clear Script

Notes

  1. As in ᠬᠠ/ᠬᠠᠮᠢᠭ? qa/qamiγa (хаа khaa) 'where'.[8]:895,923
  2. As in ᠬᠡ/ᠬᠡᠭᠡ/ᠬᠡᠭᠡᠨ ke/kege/kegen (хээ khee) 'pattern, piping, design, stamp'.[8]:438,442
  3. See the separated ᠬᠢ ki suffix.[8]
  4. As in the strengthening (emphatic) ᠭᠦ? (хүү khüü) particle,[8]:494[9]:46 or ᠬᠥ?/ᠬᠥᠭᠡ kö/köge (хөө khöö) 'soot; obstacle, hindrance; trouble', or 'ring of mail'.[8]:475,478
  1. Scholarly transliteration.[5]
  2. Separated suffixes starting with the letter k include: ᠬᠢ ki or ᠬᠢᠨ kin (case-bound possession).[10]

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. Poppe, Nicholas (1974). Grammar of Written Mongolian. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-00684-2.
  3. Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William (1996). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507993-7.
  4. Bat-Ireedui, Jantsangiyn; Sanders, Alan J. K. (2015-08-14). Colloquial Mongolian: The Complete Course for Beginners. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-30598-9.
  5. "Mongolian transliterations" (PDF). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2006-05-06.
  6. Skorodumova, L. G. (2000). Vvedenie v staropismenny mongolskiy yazyk Введение в старописьменный монгольский язык (PDF) (in Russian). Muravey-Gayd. ISBN 5-8463-0015-4.
  7. "Mongolian Transliteration & Transcription". collab.its.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
  8. 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.[7]
  9. Grønbech, Kaare; Krueger, John Richard (1993). An Introduction to Classical (literary) Mongolian: Introduction, Grammar, Reader, Glossary. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-03298-8.
  10. "PROPOSAL Encode Mongolian Suffix Connector (U+180F) To Replace Narrow Non-Breaking Space (U+202F)" (PDF). UTC Document Register for 2017. 2017-01-15.
  11. "Mongolian Traditional Script". Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Mongolian Language Site. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  12. "Writing – Study Mongolian". Study Mongolian. August 2013. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  13. jowilco. "Windows keyboard layouts - Globalization". Microsoft Docs. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  14. Kara, György (2005). Books of the Mongolian Nomads: More Than Eight Centuries of Writing Mongolian. Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies. ISBN 978-0-933070-52-3.
  15. Clauson, Gerard (2005-11-04). Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-43012-3.
  16. Janhunen, Juha (2006-01-27). The Mongolic Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-79690-7.
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