Pa (Mongolic)

Letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages

Pa 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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Main articles: Mongolian script, Mongolian writing systems, and Mongolian language

The Mongolian script
Mongolian vowels
| ᠠ

| ᠡ

| ᠢ

| ᠣ

| ᠤ

| ᠥ

| ᠦ

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(ē)

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Mongolian consonants
| ᠨ

| ᠩ

| ᠪ

| ᠫ

(p)

| ᠬ

q/k

| ᠭ

ɣ/g

| ᠮ

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| ᠰ

| ᠱ

| ᠲ

| ᠳ

| ᠴ

| ᠵ

| ᠷ

| ᠸ

(w)

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Mongolian script multigraphs

* Galik alphabet

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Letter[2]: 12, 15, 17, 23 [3]: 546 [4]: 212–213

p | Transliteration[note 1]
ᠫ‍ | Initial
‍ᠫ‍ | Medial (syllable-initial)
—  | Medial (syllable-final)
(‍ᠫ) | Final[note 2]
C-V syllables[6]: 46

pa, pe | pi | po, pu | pö, pü | Transliteration
ᠫᠠ | ᠫᠢ | ᠫᠣ | ᠫᠥ᠋ | Alone
ᠫᠠ‍ | ᠫᠢ‍ | ᠫᠣ‍ | ᠫᠥ‍ | Initial
‍ᠫᠠ‍ | ‍ᠫᠢ‍ | ‍ᠫᠣ‍ | Medial
‍ᠫᠠ | ‍ᠫᠢ | ‍ᠫᠣ | Final

* Transcribes Chakhar /p/;[7][8] Khalkha /pʰ/.[9]: 40–42 Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter п.[6][5]
* Only at the beginning of Mongolian words (although words with an initial p tend to be foreign).[10]: 5 [11]: 27 [7]
* Galik letter, derived from Mongolian b.[12]: 35
* Produced with `P` using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout.[13]
* In the Mongolian Unicode block, p comes after b and before q/k.

## Clear Script

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Main article: Clear Script

## Xibe language

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Main article: Xibe language § Alphabet

## Manchu language

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Main article: Manchu alphabet

## 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. 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. ^ a b "Mongolian transliterations" (PDF). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2006-05-06.
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. ^ a b "Mongolian Traditional Script". Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Mongolian Language Site. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
8. ^ "Writing – Study Mongolian". Study Mongolian. August 2013. 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. ^ "Mongolian / ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ Moŋġol" (PDF). Institute of the Estonian Language. 2015-12-27.
11. ^ Janhunen, Juha A. (2012). Mongolian. John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN 978-90-272-3820-7.
12. ^ Janhunen, Juha (2006-01-27). The Mongolic Languages. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-79690-7.
13. ^ jowilco. "Windows keyboard layouts - Globalization". Microsoft Docs. Retrieved 2022-05-16.

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