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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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Ra
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]: 13–14, 17 [3]: 546 [4]: 212, 214 
r Transliteration[note 1]
(ᠷ‍) Initial[note 2]
‍ᠷ‍ Medial (syllable-initial)
Medial (syllable-final)
‍ᠷ Final
C-V syllables[6]: 14 
r‑a, r‑e ra, re ri ro, ru , Transliteration
ᠷᠠ ᠷᠢ ᠷᠣ᠋ ᠷᠥ᠋ Alone
ᠷᠠ‍ ᠷᠢ‍ ᠷᠣ‍ ᠷᠥ‍ Initial
‍ᠷᠠ‍ ‍ᠷᠢ‍ ‍ᠷᠣ‍ Medial
‍ᠷ᠎ᠠ⟨?⟩ ‍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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Notes

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  1. ^ Scholarly transliteration.[5]
  2. ^ Not found in native Mongolian words.

References

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  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. ^ a b Poppe, Nicholas (1974). Grammar of Written Mongolian. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-00684-2.
  3. ^ a b 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. ^ a b "Mongolian transliterations" (PDF). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2006-05-06. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-11-22. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
  6. ^ a b 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 Traditional Script". Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Mongolian Language Site. Archived from the original on 2022-01-18. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  8. ^ "Writing – Study Mongolian". Study Mongolian. August 2013. Archived from the original on 2020-10-31. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  9. ^ Svantesson, Jan-Olof; Tsendina, Anna; Karlsson, Anastasia; Franzen, Vivan (2005-02-10). The Phonology of Mongolian. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-151461-6.
  10. ^ Clauson, Gerard (2005-11-04). Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-43012-3.
  11. ^ Janhunen, Juha (2006-01-27). The Mongolic Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-79690-7.
  12. ^ jowilco. "Windows keyboard layouts - Globalization". Microsoft Docs. Archived from the original on 2022-05-26. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
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