U 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]: 17, 19–20 [3]: 546 | |
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u | Transliteration[note 1] |
ᠤ | Alone |
ᠤ | Initial |
ᠤ | Medial |
ᠤ | Final |
Ligatures[2]: 22–23 [3]: 546 | ||
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bu | pu | Transliteration |
ᠪᠤ | ᠫᠤ | Alone |
ᠪᠤ | ᠫᠤ | Initial |
ᠪᠤ | ᠫᠤ | Medial |
ᠪᠤ | ᠫᠤ | Final |
Separated suffixes[note 2] | |||||
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‑u(...) | ‑u | ‑un | ‑ud | ‑uruɣu | 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, except where u can be inferred from its context:
- 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
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Xibe language
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Manchu language
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Notes
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edit- ^ "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.
- ^ a b c Poppe, Nicholas (1974). Grammar of Written Mongolian. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-00684-2.
- ^ a b c Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William (1996). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507993-7.
- ^ a b "Mongolian transliterations" (PDF). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2006-05-06.
- ^ "PROPOSAL Encode Mongolian Suffix Connector (U+180F) To Replace Narrow Non-Breaking Space (U+202F)" (PDF). UTC Document Register for 2017. 2017-01-15.
- ^ "Mongolian Traditional Script". Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Mongolian Language Site. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
- ^ "Writing – Study Mongolian". Study Mongolian. August 2013. 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.
- ^ Skorodumova, L. G. (2000). Vvedenie v staropismenny mongolskiy yazyk Введение в старописьменный монгольский язык (PDF) (in Russian). Muravey-Gayd. ISBN 5-8463-0015-4.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Janhunen, Juha (2006-01-27). The Mongolic Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-79690-7.
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (2005-11-04). Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-43012-3.
- ^ jowilco. "Windows keyboard layouts - Globalization". Microsoft Docs. Retrieved 2022-05-16.