Ra (Mongolic)
Ra is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages.[1]: 549–551
Mongolian language
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Letter[2]: 13–14, 17 [3]: 546 [4]: 212, 214 | |
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r | Transliteration[note 1] |
(ᠷ) | Initial[note 2] |
ᠷ | Medial (syllable-initial) |
Medial (syllable-final) | |
ᠷ | Final |
C-V syllables[6]: 14 | |||||
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r‑a, r‑e | ra, re | ri | ro, ru | rö, rü | Transliteration |
— | ᠷᠠ | ᠷᠢ | ᠷᠣ᠋ | ᠷᠥ᠋ | Alone |
ᠷᠠ | ᠷᠢ | ᠷᠣ | ᠷᠥ | Initial | |
ᠷᠠ | ᠷᠢ | ᠷᠣ | Medial | ||
ᠷᠠ⟨?⟩ ⟨![]() ![]() |
ᠷᠠ | ᠷᠢ | ᠷᠣ | Final |
- Transcribes Chakhar /r/;[7][8] Khalkha /r/.[9]: 40–42 Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter р.[6][5]
- Not occurring word-initially except in loanwords.[2]: 14
- Derived from Old Uyghur resh (𐽾).[3]: 539–540, 545–546 [10]: 111, 113 [11]: 35
- Produced with R using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[12]
- In the Mongolian Unicode block, r comes after y and before w.
Clear Script
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Xibe language
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Manchu language
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References
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- Poppe, Nicholas (1974). Grammar of Written Mongolian. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-00684-2.
- Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William (1996). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507993-7.
- Bat-Ireedui, Jantsangiyn; Sanders, Alan J. K. (2015-08-14). Colloquial Mongolian: The Complete Course for Beginners. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-30598-9.
- "Mongolian transliterations" (PDF). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2006-05-06. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-11-22. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
- Skorodumova, L. G. (2000). Vvedenie v staropismenny mongolskiy yazyk Введение в старописьменный монгольский язык (PDF) (in Russian). Muravey-Gayd. ISBN 5-8463-0015-4.
- "Mongolian Traditional Script". Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Mongolian Language Site. Archived from the original on 2022-01-18. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
- "Writing – Study Mongolian". Study Mongolian. August 2013. Archived from the original on 2020-10-31. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
- Svantesson, Jan-Olof; Tsendina, Anna; Karlsson, Anastasia; Franzen, Vivan (2005-02-10). The Phonology of Mongolian. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-151461-6.
- Clauson, Gerard (2005-11-04). Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-43012-3.
- Janhunen, Juha (2006-01-27). The Mongolic Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-79690-7.
- jowilco. "Windows keyboard layouts - Globalization". Microsoft Docs. Archived from the original on 2022-05-26. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
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