Ta (Mongolic)

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

Mongolian language

Ta
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]:13,17,23[3]:546[4]:212,214
t Transliteration[note 1]
Initial
Medial (syllable-initial)
Medial (syllable-final)
Final
C-V syllables[6]:31
ta, te ti to, tu , Transliteration
ᠲᠠ[lower-alpha 1] ᠲᠢ ᠲᠣ ᠲᠥ Alone
ᠲᠠ ᠲᠢ ᠲᠣ ᠲᠥ Initial
ᠲᠠ ᠲᠢ ᠲᠣ Medial
ᠲᠠ ᠲᠢ ᠲᠣ Final
Separated suffixes[note 2]
ta, te tu, Transliteration
ᠲᠤ Whole
ᠲᠠ ᠲᠤ Initial
  • Transcribes Chakhar /t/;[10][11] Khalkha /t/.[12]:40–42 Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter т.[6][5]
  • Syllable-initially indistinguishable from d.[2]:23[13]:9[10]
  • Derived from Old Uyghur taw (𐾀; initial) and lamedh (𐽸; medial).[3]:539–540,545–546[14]:111,113[15]:35
  • Positional variants on taw // are used consistently for t in foreign words.[2]:23[15]:37
  • Produced with T using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[16]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, t comes after š and before d.

Clear Script

Xibe language

Manchu language

Notes

  1. As in the second person singular/plural pronoun ᠲᠠ ta 'you',[8]:760[2]:85–86 or the intensifying ᠳᠠ da/de (даа/дээ daa/dee) particle used after the predicate.[8]:211
  1. Scholarly transliteration.[5]
  2. Separated suffixes starting with the letter t include: ᠲᠠᠢ tai/tei (comitative), ᠲᠠᠭᠠᠨ/ᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ taγan/tegen (reflexive+dative-locative), ᠲᠠᠶᠢᠭᠠᠨ?/ᠲᠡᠶᠢᠭᠡᠨ? tayiγan/teyigen (reflexive+comitative), and ᠲᠤ tu/ or ᠲᠤᠷ tur/tür (dative-locative).[9]

References

  1. "The Unicode Standard, Version 14.0 – Core Specification Chapter 13: South and Central Asia-II, Other Modern Scripts" (PDF). www.unicode.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-10-31. 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. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-11-22. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
  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. "PROPOSAL Encode Mongolian Suffix Connector (U+180F) To Replace Narrow Non-Breaking Space (U+202F)" (PDF). UTC Document Register for 2017. 2017-01-15.
  10. "Mongolian Traditional Script". Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Mongolian Language Site. Archived from the original on 2022-01-18. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  11. "Writing – Study Mongolian". Study Mongolian. August 2013. Archived from the original on 2020-10-31. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  12. Svantesson, Jan-Olof; Tsendina, Anna; Karlsson, Anastasia; Franzen, Vivan (2005-02-10). The Phonology of Mongolian. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-151461-6.
  13. 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.
  14. Clauson, Gerard (2005-11-04). Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-43012-3.
  15. Janhunen, Juha (2006-01-27). The Mongolic Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-79690-7.
  16. jowilco. "Windows keyboard layouts - Globalization". Microsoft Docs. Archived from the original on 2022-05-26. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
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