U (Mongolic)

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

Mongolian language

U
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, 19–20 [3]: 546 
u Transliteration[note 1]
Alone
ᠤ‍ Initial
‍ᠤ‍ Medial
‍ᠤ Final
Ligatures[2]: 22–23 [3]: 546 
bu pu Transliteration
ᠪᠤ ᠫᠤ Alone
ᠪᠤ‍ ᠫᠤ‍ Initial
‍ᠪᠤ‍ ‍ᠫᠤ‍ Medial
‍ᠪᠤ ‍ᠫᠤ Final
Separated suffixes[note 2]
‑u(...) ‑u ‑un ‑ud ‑uruγu Transliteration
 ᠤ⟨?⟩ Whole
 ᠤᠨ⟨?⟩  ᠤᠳ⟨?⟩
 ᠤᠷᠤᠭᠤ⟨?⟩
  • Transcribes Chakhar /ʊ/;[6][7] Khalkha /ʊ/, /ə/, and //.[8]: 40–42  Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter у.[9][4]
  • Indistinguishable from o.[2]: 19 [10]: 9–10 
  • ‍ᠤ᠋‍ = medial form used after the junction in a proper name compound.[11]: 44 
  • Derived from Old Uyghur waw (𐽳), preceded by an aleph (𐽰) for isolate and initial forms.[3]: 539–540, 545–546 [12]: 111, 113 [11]: 35 
  • Produced with V using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[13]
  • In the Mongolian Unicode block, u comes after o and before ö.

Clear Script

Xibe language

Manchu language

Notes

  1. ^ Scholarly transliteration.[4]
  2. ^ Separated suffixes starting with, or made up by the letter u include:  ᠤ⟨?⟩ ‑u or  ᠤᠨ⟨?⟩ ‑un (genitive),  ᠤᠳ⟨?⟩ ‑ud (plural), and  ᠤᠷᠤᠭᠤ⟨?⟩ ‑uruγu (directive).[5]

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.
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  4. ^ a b "Mongolian transliterations" (PDF). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2006-05-06.
  5. ^ "PROPOSAL Encode Mongolian Suffix Connector (U+180F) To Replace Narrow Non-Breaking Space (U+202F)" (PDF). UTC Document Register for 2017. 2017-01-15.
  6. ^ "Mongolian Traditional Script". Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Mongolian Language Site. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  7. ^ "Writing – Study Mongolian". Study Mongolian. August 2013. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
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  13. ^ jowilco. "Windows keyboard layouts - Globalization". Microsoft Docs. Retrieved 2022-05-16.